rust/checklist: update fedora packaging section

[jcapiitao]

Packit submits the PR after a new version is released upstream, so we can remove those steps.

[jbtrystram]

Lgtm

[jbtrystram]

Although do we have packit on all the repos ?

[jcapiitao]

Although do we have packit on all the repos ?

Good point, looks like we haven't yet integrated Packit in https://github.com/coreos/afterburn.
Let's put on hold this PR then

[dustymabe]

@jcapiitao would you want to set up packit on afterburn? we can use it soon for the new release we are going to do there.

[jcapiitao]

@jcapiitao would you want to set up packit on afterburn? we can use it soon for the new release we are going to do there.

yes, I'll work on that

[jcapiitao]

@dustymabe just proposed a PR to do so coreos/afterburn#1189

[travier]

Something I don't remember is how does Packit does backports to branches. We wanted to keep the fast-forward nature of those updates.

[jcapiitao]

Something I don't remember is how does Packit does backports to branches. We wanted to keep the fast-forward nature of those updates.

You mean the backport of rawhide patches to stable branches ? If so, I think it does not, at least according to the coreos-installer distgit repo the rebase/cherry-pick is done manually before the fedpkg push && fedpkg build.

[travier]

Ideally we use fast forward pushes for all branches. Looks like https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rust-coreos-installer/pull-request/77 made the branches diverge.

[travier]

I know that there is a functionality in packit to do it now as we requested it, but I don't remember how it works.

• https://packit.dev/docs/configuration/downstream/pull_from_upstream#optional-parameters
• https://packit.dev/docs/configuration/upstream/propose_downstream#optional-parameters

[jcapiitao]

Ideally we use fast forward pushes for all branches. Looks like https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rust-coreos-installer/pull-request/77 made the branches diverge.

Right, I had to cherry-pick the Packit's patch on F42, as I could not rebase. I'll reconcile the branches.

I know that there is a functionality in packit to do it now as we requested it, but I don't remember how it works.

* https://packit.dev/docs/configuration/downstream/pull_from_upstream#optional-parameters

* https://packit.dev/docs/configuration/upstream/propose_downstream#optional-parameters

I like the idea of Packit submitting a PR backporting rawhide commit to stable branches, as this will automatically trigger a scratch build, whereas we might forget to do so when done manually. Let's implement it.

[jcapiitao]

I amended my afterburn PR to include the configuration telling Packit to backport to stable branches c.f https://github.com/coreos/afterburn/pull/1189/files#diff-2b4300f6d69654fd71c0cdd329b5a5f13fa8fe7eb709c76276bdfd3ea1dde578R21-R23
Also, I double checked that all stable branches in Fedora dist-git are synced, it's all good.