Dynamic RPM Spec Files - The Future of Packaging?
New Dynamic Spec features and how they may benefit your packages
Florian Festi
Working for Red Hat since 2006 Working on RPM since 2008
No video of the event yet, sorry!
Traditionally RPM Spec Files have been pretty static. Most of the important information about a package and how to build it had - and to some degree still has - to be typed into the Spec File. With more and more software that comes "pre-packaged" from upstream this seems more and more redundant and archaic.
At first I will go over the dynamic build features in RPM - old, new and future and how they can be used to make packaging easier.
In the longer second part we will collect and discuss your use cases and solutions. The goal of the session is for you to get a better understanding what can already be achieved with the current and upcoming features to reduce the length and complexity of your Spec Files and for us at RPM upstream to get a list of use cases and still missing features to allow advancing this area of development.
The workshop targets experienced packagers especially those that deal with packaging on a distribution or ecosystem/language level.
- Date:
- 2023 May 27 - 10:30
- Duration:
- 1 h
- Room:
- Seminarraum 1 (Up Stairs) https://meet.opensuse.org/Seminarraum1
- Conference:
- openSUSE Conference 2023
- Language:
- English
- Track:
- openSUSE
- Difficulty:
- Medium
- The Mainframe
- Start Time:
- 2023 May 27 10:30
- Room:
- Galerie
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- Start Time:
- 2023 May 27 10:30
- Room:
- Saal
- Remote headless Wayland sessions on GNOME
- Start Time:
- 2023 May 27 11:00
- Room:
- Galerie
- Very lightning talks
- Start Time:
- 2023 May 27 11:00
- Room:
- Saal