tools or scripts for release engineering?

[Eric Smith]

Are there any tools or scripts for Fedora Core release engineering?
In other words, the stuff that takes a big collection of SRPMS, and
results in the ISO images?

Failing that, is there some documentation on how it is done?

I'm sure that with enough trial and error I could eventually come close
to duplicating the way it's done officially, but if there are tools
and/or docs, it's obviously much easier.

Thanks!
Eric Smith

[bishop]

Eric,

That's something I'm interesting in reading as well. In addition, I'm
looking forward to replicating, at home, whichever auto-build-from-CVS
strategy Fedora chooses. My own system is okay, but it's small-time,
it's got a whack of limitations and the workaround for them aren't
pretty at all.

I'm not sure of the license on our RPM-CVS add-on tools are, so I've
hesitated on suggesting that (who's a python guru here?) for the
collective. I almost wish I could get my hands on the release
engineering routine one we used to use for work, but I'm sure that work
would clamp some serious legal ain't-gonna-happen docs on it.

Ideally, I'd love to see changes CVS building Rawhide packages, as well
as a valid, installable update CD, maybe weekly. It was a goal we had
at work for the longest time, spearheaded by Mr Terpstra himself for a
while, too, even, but it lost the race.

Bummer.

But yeah, put my name down for any private responses to Eric's question.
I want to be on the CC list to that stuff.

- bish

Post by Eric Smith
Are there any tools or scripts for Fedora Core release engineering?
In other words, the stuff that takes a big collection of SRPMS, and
results in the ISO images?
Failing that, is there some documentation on how it is done?
I'm sure that with enough trial and error I could eventually come close
to duplicating the way it's done officially, but if there are tools
and/or docs, it's obviously much easier.
Thanks!
Eric Smith