User:Denisarnaud

Denis Arnaud

I first installed RedHat (version 5, in 1998) with Oracle 8, when that latter was delivered on Linux for the first time... on a small Pentium-based computer with 600MB of disk and 64MB of RAM, hence proving to my hierarchy that Linux was ready for professional use. I started to be involved in the Fedora building process by translating documents and package descriptions, and have become a packager in 2009.

Contact

• Location: Grasse, France (Paris Time, CET UTC+1 / CEST UTC+2)
• Email: mailto:denis.arnaud_fedora@m4x.org
• GPG key: Denis Arnaud (Fedora Packager)
• Fedora
  • Fedora Account / FAS: denisarnaud
  • Fedora VOIP: Extension #5105604 / SIP Address: sip:denisarnaud@fedoraproject.org
  • Fedora People Page: http://denisarnaud.fedorapeople.org
  • Fedora packages: http://src.fedoraproject.org/user/denisarnaud (deprecated: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packager/denisarnaud/)
  • Fedora builds (Koji): http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/userinfo?userID=denisarnaud
  • Fedora updates (Bodhi): http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/user/denisarnaud
  • Fedora Badges: http://badges.fedoraproject.org/user/denisarnaud
  • Fedora COPR: http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/denisarnaud/
  • Fedora activity (DataGrepper): http://apps.fedoraproject.org/datagrepper/raw?user=denisarnaud
  • Fedora IRC: nickname: denis___
• GitHub: denisarnaud
• SourceForge: denis_arnaud
• Ohloh: denis_arnaud
• Launchpad (e.g., for OpenStack): denis-arnaud-lp
• StackOverflow: denis-arnaud
• Geonames: denis.arnaud
• Twitter: denis_arnaud
• Skype: denis.arnaud100
• Google Talk: denis.arnaud
• Yahoo! Messaging: denis_arnaud
• AIM: darnaud100
• Blog: http://fossdev.blogspot.com

Activities within Fedora

Packaging with Docker Images

• Fedora/EPEL Packaging Docker images:
  • on GitHub
  • on Docker Hub
• Docker RPM builder by Alan Franzoni

Boost

• Co-maintainers:
  • Official mainstream package: Jon Wakely (old: Petr Machata)
  • Specific packages on EPEL: Haikel Guemar, Robert Scheck
• Boost-1.69 for EPEL 7:
  • Boost-1.69 Review request in Bugzilla
  • Boost-1.69 Copr's project
  • Boost-1.69 SCL (Software Collection)
  • Pagure Git repository creation request for Boost169
• Boost-1.59 for EPEL 7:
  • Boost-1.59 Review request in Bugzilla (submitted by Haikel Guemar)
• Boost-1.57 for EPEL 5 to 7:
  • Boost-1.57 Review request in Bugzilla
  • Boost-1.57 Copr's project
  • Boost-1.57 SCL (Software Collection)
• Boost-1.48 for EPEL 5 and 6 (EPEL 7 has got Boost-1.53):
  • Boost-1.48 Review request in Bugzilla
  • Boost-1.48 Copr's project
  • Boost-1.48 SCL (Software Collection)
• Review Request for Boost.Nowide, by James Hogarth

Boost Releases in Fedora

• Boost 1.72 Feature for Fedora 32 (to be completed in February 2020)(Boost 1.72 to be released early December 2019 / Track the Boost releases on GitHub)
• Boost 1.70 Feature for Fedora 31 (to be completed in September 2019)(Boost 1.70 released on the 12 April 2019)
• Boost 1.69 Feature for Fedora 30 (to be completed in February 2019) (Boost 1.69 released on the 12 December 2018)
• Boost 1.67 Feature for Fedora 29 (completed in July 2018) (Boost 1.67 released on the 14 April 2018)
• Boost 1.66 Feature for Fedora 28 (completed in February 2018)(Boost 1.66 released on the 18 December 2017)
• Boost 1.64 Feature for Fedora 27 (completed in July 2017)(Boost 1.64 released on the 19 April 2017)
• Boost 1.63 Feature for Fedora 26 (completed in February 2017)(Boost 1.63 released on the 26 December 2016)
• Boost 1.61 Feature for Fedora 25 (completed in August 2016)(Boost 1.61 released on the 13 May 2016)
• Boost 1.60 Feature for Fedora 24 (completed in February 2016)(Boost 1.60 released on the 17 December 2015)
• Boost 1.58 Feature for Fedora 23 (completed in August 2015)(Boost 1.59 was not ready in time)
• Boost 1.57 Feature for Fedora 22 (completed in February 2015)(Boost 1.58 was not ready in time)
• Boost 1.55 Feature for Fedora 21 (completed in June 2014)(Boost 1.56 was not ready in time)
• Boost 1.54 Feature for Fedora 20 (completed in October 2013)
• Boost 1.53 Feature for Fedora 19 (completed in March 2013)
• Boost 1.50 Feature for Fedora 18 (completed in October 2012)
• Boost 1.48 Feature for Fedora 17 (completed in February 2012)
• Boost 1.47 Feature for Fedora 16 (completed in September 2011)
• Boost 1.46 Feature for Fedora 15 (completed in early 2011)
• Boost 1.44 Feature for Fedora 14 (completed mid 2010)
• Boost 1.41 Feature for Fedora 13 (completed in early 2010)
• Boost-1.41 for EPEL 4/5 Review Request (completed mid 2011)

Helper tools for Boost building on Fedora Rawhide

• Tools to follow the procedure for dependency (mass) rebuild on GitHub Fedora Packaging

Modularized Boost

• Boost super-project GitHub repository
• Getting Started with Modular Boost
• Contribution Tutorial for Boost.Geometry (as an example of Boost module)

Bringing and maintaining a few packages to Fedora

• My own open source software:
  • Hypertable: RE2, the fast C++ alternative to backtracking RE engines (PkgApp / PkgSrc / Google code)
  • OpenTREP (Documentation on SF, BZ Review Request, Release engineering for Git repo creation), OpenTravelData and OpenGeo++
  • Airline Travel Market simulation project:
    • TvlSim, the Travel Simulator umbrella component: Documentation on SF, BZ Review Request
    • RMOL, the Revenue Management Open C++ Library: PkgApp, PkgSrc, Documentation on SF, BZ Review Request
    • StdAir, the Standard Airline IT C++ Library: PkgApp, PkgSrc, Documentation on SF, BZ Review Request
    • AirTSP, the Airline Travel Service Provider C++ Library: PkgApp, PkgSrc, Documentation on SF, BZ Rename Request. Formerly known as AirSched: PkgApp, PkgSrc, BZ Review Request
    • AirInv, the Airline Inventory C++ Library: PkgApp, PkgSrc, Documentation on SF, BZ Review Request
    • TravelCCM, the Travel Customer Choice Modeling (CCM) C++ Library: PkgApp, PkgSrc, Documentation on SF, BZ Review Request
    • TraDemGen, the Travel Demand Generator C++ Library: PkgApp, PkgSrc, Documentation on SF, BZ Review Request
    • SEvMgr, the Simulation-Related Discrete Event Management C++ Library: PkgApp, PkgSrc, Documentation on SF, BZ Review Request
    • AirRAC, the Airline Revenue Accounting C++ Library: PkgApp, PkgSrc, Documentation on SF, BZ Review Request
    • SimFQT, the Simulated Pricing System C++ Library: PkgApp, PkgSrc, Documentation on SF, BZ Review Request
    • SimCRS, the Simulated Reservation System C++ Library: PkgApp, PkgSrc, Documentation on SF, BZ Review Request
    • AvlCal, the Airline Availability Calculation C++ Library: Documentation on SF, Not submitted as a Fedora package yet
    • SimLFS, the Simulated Low Fare Search System C++ Library: Documentation on SF, Not submitted as a Fedora package yet
  • Extra CPPUnit and CruiseControl Tools
• Some others which have made their way into Fedora:
  • WSDLPull: PkgApp, PkgSrc, BZ Review Request
  • SOCI: PkgApp, PkgSrc, BZ Review Request
  • R packages:
    • R-mvtnorm: PkgApp, PkgSrc, BZ Review Request
    • R-msm: PkgApp, PkgSrc, BZ Review Request
    • R-RM2: PkgApp, PkgSrc. BZ Review Request
• Some others not yet in Fedora (e.g., BLCR, Eucalyptus, Slurm)
• Helper to upgrade ZeroMQ from version 2.x to 3.2: http://zeromq.org/docs:3-1-upgrade . See also the review request for zeromq2.

A few quick links on Fedora packages (to ease my maintenance tasks)

• First of all:
  • A link to the wonderful Fedora Community platform (not enough advertised!)
  • A link to another wonderful Fedora application for search and information about packages (same comment as above)

• Notification system (FMN)

• Full list of packages waiting for a reviewer here.

• List of my packages available in Fedora.

• List of my packages that have passed review, are under review or await review.

• List of (open or closed) reviews for my packages.

• Reviews I have done: see full list or just packages under review or packages that have passed review.

• List of reviews where I have left some comments.

• The ticket for my application to the proven-packager group.

• Bugzilla Review Request template for simulator-related projects

• Bugzilla template for creating a typical review request

• Test Machine Resources For Package Maintainers

• Docker images for RPM building

• From dist-git to Pagure, and migration of PkgDB

• Grok mirrors for the Fedora packaging source code

• Fedora mailing lists (ML):
  • Fedora Packaging mailing list (ML)
  • Fedora Devel mailing list (ML)
  • Fedora Server mailing list (ML)
  • Fedora Cloud mailing list (ML)
  • Fedora Big Data mailing list (ML)
  • Fedora Virtualization mailing list (ML)
  • Fedora Users mailing list (ML)

Specific packaging procedures

• Create a build tag
• Release engineering on Pagure (for instance, to create tickets)
• Fedora release engineering on Freenode IRC

Material for Reviews

Tracking of Package Requests

• New Review Requests, waiting for review (Cached for faster access)
• Review requests needing a sponsor
• Packages Currently Under Review (Cached for faster access)
• Packages Reviewed but not Closed
• General Cache for the Package Review Status

Documentation

Packaging

General

• Welcome page for the package maintainers
• Packaging guidelines in Fedora Docs (deprecated: Packaging Guidelines on Fedora Wiki), and their source code on Pagure.io
• Review guidelines
• Packaging tricks
• Changes Policy

Specific guidelines

• Deprecated: PackageDB admin requests - fedpkg is now used to manage Fedora packages
• RPM macros (deprecated: RPM macros)
• SourceURL → Git Hosting Services (deprecated: Source URL → GitHub source URL)
• CMake (deprecated: CMake)
• Python / Python appendix / Python Eggs (deprecated: Python / Python Appendix / Python Eggs)
• R (old: R)
• MPI (deprecated: MPI)
• MinGW (deprecated: MinGW / MinGW future)
• Scriptlets (deprecated: Scriplets/Snippets)
• Naming (deprecated: Naming)
• Patch upstrem status (deprecated: Patch upstream status)
• Licensing (deprecated: Licensing Guidelines and Fedora Licensing)
• Modularity
  • Software Collection (SCL) guidelines - Draft
  • Env and Stacks/Product Requirements Document

Package testing

• Proven tester procedure
• Critical path packages
• Jenkins@infra

Package updating

• Updates Policy
• Update how-to
• Upstream release monitoring
• Koschei → Koschei at Fedora

Package renaming

• Package Renaming Process
• Renaming/Replacing Existing Packages section of the Packaging guideleines

Package retiring

• How to remove a package at end of life

Build Side Build Targets/Tags

• SOP - Adding side build targets
• Example with Boost1.69 on Fedora 30:
  • rel-eng build tag creation request

Reviews

• Package Review Guidelines
• Package Review Process
• PackageDB admin requests
• Package Review SIG
• Tom "Spot" Callaway's Review Cheat Sheet

Compositions / Collections

• How to use and edit comps.xml for package groups

Tools

• Docker images for Fedora Packaging
• Koji how-to
• Bodhi-client how-to
• Fedora Easy Karma (f-e-k)
• Fedora-Review tool
• Create a new rel-eng ticket
• mockchain use cases and examples (April 2012)
• RPath Packaging Draft
• IRC

Package information pages (and database)

• Fedora package database (DB) portal
• Package List
• My packages

Hacking on Fedora/RedHat/CentOS

• Out 0f office notification
• All the SIGs (Special Interest Groups)
  • Geographic Information System (GIS) SIG
  • Cloud SIG
  • Package Review SIG
  • Science and Technology SIG
  • Server SIG

NoSQL

• Big Data SIG packages:
  • William Benton → Packaging Scala, improved Scala ecosystem and packaging Apache Spark
  • User:Jromanes → http://github.com/fedora-bigdata-rpms
  • SIGs/bigdata/packaging:
    • User:Denisarnaud/Hadoop / Hadoop on Fedora 20 / Bootstrapping Your MapReduce 2.X Programming on Fedora 20
    • SIGs/bigdata/packaging/Scala
    • SIGs/bigdata/packaging/Sbt
    • SIGs/bigdata/packaging/kafka
• NoSQL SIG
• Hypertable

Virtualisation / Cloud Computing

General

• Virtualization
• Getting started with virtualization
• LXC containers

Cloud SIG

• Meeting logs
• Cloud guide / Fedora in the cloud

Cloud solutions submitted to Fedora

• Marketing material
  • Cloud SIG
  • OpenStack in Fedora
• Fedora 17 feature: XAPI / Xen tool stack
• Fedora 16 feature: Aeolus
• Eucalyptus (AWS-compatible IaaS)
• Docker Cloud Image
• Cloud image creation with Koji's Image Factory
  • Fedora 17 feature: Eucalyptus
• Fedora 17 feature: Open vSwitch
• GSOC 2012 - Bringing the Cloud to the Fedora Desktop
• OpenStack
  • OpenStack in Fedora
  • OpenStack status reports
  • Getting started with OpenStack
    • Getting started with OpenStack (Grizzly) on Fedora 19 (Test Day:2013-04-02 OpenStack)
    • Getting started with OpenStack (Folsom) on Fedora 18 (Test Day:2012-09-18 OpenStack)
    • Getting started with OpenStack (Essex) on Fedora 17 / My own hands on guide for OpenStack on Fedora 17
    • Getting started with OpenStack Nova
    • Getting started with OpenStack on EPEL (CentOS/RedHat)
    • Set up and (QA) test of Quantum v2
  • devstack
  • Installing and running OpenStack Horizon Dashboard
  • Fedora 19 feature: OpenStack Grizzly (next stable release)
  • Fedora 18 feature: OpenStack Folsom (current stable release)
  • OpenShift Origin
    • Fedora 18 feature: OpenShift Origin (OpenShift on top of OpenStack)
  • [2012-03-08] OpenStack Test Day
  • Fedora 18 feature: OpenStack using Oz for image building
• oVirt packaging
• Fedora 17 feature: OpenNebula
• CloudStack
• Fedora 15 feature: BoxGrinder
• CloudFS / Fedora 16 feature: HekaFS
• Fedora 16 feature: Sheepdog
• Cloud images (mainly for Amazon EC2)
  • VM Image Creation

Amazon (EC2)

• EC2 Primer

Create Vagrant Images

• Vagrant images are built in Koji with the "CreateImage" method, which calls ImageFactory.
• That is fed by a kickstart (e.g., like https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spin-kickstarts.git/tree/fedora-cloud-base-vagrant.ks), from the spin-kickstarts repository (https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spin-kickstarts.git)
• An image comes out the other side, like this: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=9832786
• The ImageFactory command looks like:

imagefactory --debug base_image --parameter generate_icicle false tdl-ppc64le.xml --file-parameter install_script f22-rc3-base.ks

Tools

• (third party) Review helper tool
• Fedora active user Python script (see also the corresponding Git repository)
• Get the tree of dependencies of any given package:

repoquery --requires --recursive --output=ascii-tree pkgname

Brainstorming Section about Packaging

Using Git Work-flow for Packaging

• Building Debian packages with a Git workflow using "git-buildpackage":
  • http://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit
  • http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.html
  • http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/git.html
• Keeping patches as commits on a "patch-queue" branch:
  • https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/development/debian_packages_in_git/
• Another tool for managing Debian packages with Git, "git-dpm":
  • http://git-dpm.alioth.debian.org/
  • http://git-dpm.alioth.debian.org/examples.html
• Recent discussions on Git packaging workflows in Debian:
  • http://wiki.debian.org/GitPackagingWorkflow
  • http://wiki.debian.org/GitPackagingWorkflow/DebConf11BOF
  • http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/07/msg00771.html
• TopGit, a patch-queue manager:
  • http://repo.or.cz/w/topgit.git?a=blob;f=README
• Recent discussions in Fedora about that subject:
  • http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-September/156403.html
  • https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/nice-rpm-git-patch-management-trick
• Proposal to add version control key within the specification file