rdopkg
is an RPM packaging automation tool. It provides automation for package maintenance including git-based patches management and automagic rebases to new upstream versions with nice .spec changes, changelogs and commit messages for both CLI and CI usage. It also contains various functionality we needed for RDO packaging, such as advanced requirements.txt
management for python projects and rdoinfo integration.
Generic distgit and patches management functionality and conventions provided by rdopkg
proved to be efficient way of packaging fast-moving upstream projects with minimal human effort but without losing control over individual packages.
rdopkg
is now considered stable. It was originally developed to serve the needs of the mighty RDO packager-warriors and their weapons such as DLRN, but it can help with any RPM package. For example, see how you can manage your RPMs with rdopkg.
rdopkg
uses software factory for CI and every commit goes through automatic unit, feature, and integration testing as well as human reviews.
See open rdopkg reviews.
rdopkg
is currently compatible with both python 3 only.
rdopkg
is available on Fedora 37 and newer:
dnf install rdopkg
On CentOS Stream/RHEL 8/9, rdopkg
is available from EPEL.
On CentOS Stream 8:
dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools dnf install epel-release dnf install rdopkg
On CentOS Stream 9:
dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb dnf install epel-release dnf install rdopkg
If you want to hack rdopkg
or just have the latest fixes without waiting for next release, I suggest using the git repo directly:
git clone https://github.com/softwarefactory-project/rdopkg pip install -e rdopkg
You may set the preference over rdopkg
RPM by correctly positioning ~/.local/bin/rdopkg
in your $PATH
.
Or you can use virtualenv to avoid conflicts with RPM:
git clone https://github.com/softwarefactory-project/rdopkg cd rdopkg virtualenv --system-site-packages ~/rdopkg-venv source ~/rdopkg-venv/bin/activate pip install -e . ln `which rdopkg` ~/bin/rdopkg-dev rdopkg-dev --version
Required python modules are listed in requirements.txt and also in rdopkg.spec as RPM Requires.
For your convenience, rdopkg
is also available from the Cheese Shop. This should come in handy especially if you want to reuse rdopkg
as a module.
pip install rdopkg
Note that you need to have python3-rpm package installed in order for RPM macro related features to work as it isn't available from PyPI.
Exhaustive rdopkg
manual is available, you can:
man rdopkg
if you installed from RPMmake doc
You might also be interested in RDO packaging intro which contains some examples of rdopkg
usage and more.
Please use the github Issues to report bugs. I usually fix critical bugs within days.