[Rdo-list] OPM downstream patches

[Ivan Chavero]

----- Mensaje original -----
> De: "Gabriele Cerami" <gcerami at redhat.com>
> Para: rdo-list at redhat.com
> Enviados: Jueves, 14 de Enero 2016 17:26:01
> Asunto: Re: [Rdo-list] OPM downstream patches
> 
> On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 16:00 -0500, Jason Guiditta wrote:
> 
> > I could be wrong, but I think this is consistent with what opm _used_
> > to do, which itself was _inconsistent_ with the rest of rdo (not sure
> > how, or if this relates to pure upstream).  So, for liberty, for
> > example, we have upstream-liberty, which is _exactly_ what was in
> > stable/liberty for the various openstack puppet modules at the time
> > of
> > the last (yes, manual) sync.  Then we (opm) have stable/liberty,
> > which
> > has everything from upstream-liberty, with whatever patches have been
> > added on top of  it.  If I am correct that is needed for rdo, but
> > inconsistent with what you have described, how hard would it be to
> > alter the rdo-puppet-modules stuff to work with the new reality?
> 
> OPM has never used rdopkg for its update, if it's what you mean with
> "this is needed for rdo": the patches are applied directly to the
> midstream repo, and not saved in patch files to be applied to the
> package. I don't know why OPM had this "privilege" and if we're going
> to change it in the future, but this manual process of merging upstream
> -liberty with the patches it's what has been automated in OPMCI.
> 

rdopkg has been used in OPM for a while, i'm not sure if they are still using
it through...

> For example the module puppet-nova in rdo-puppet-modules, contains
> three branches for every upstream branch:
> - stable/liberty (tracks upstream/stable/liberty)
> - stable/liberty-patches
> - stable/liberty-tag (created with git merge liberty liberty-patches)
> 
> what you call stable/liberty in rdo-puppet-modules/puppet-nova is
> called liberty-tag. It contains upstream liberty branch to the latest
> revision merged with all the patches present in liberty-patches (and if
> a patch added to liberty-patches is finally merged upstream, it is
> automatically removed from liberty-patches).
> 
> The scripts that handle OPMCI have been modified recently (in the hope
> that they could be used to handle other repositories as well), to
> handle repositories much closely to what rdopkg requires, so it may
> possible to alter to a new reality (if I understood what it means)
> 
> (At the moment OPM CI is configured to follow only master branches from
> upstream so you will not really find a liberty branch, but the concept
> is the same for any upstream branch)
> 
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