rebase-helper

Rebase-helper workflow

This tool helps you to rebase package to the latest version

How the rebase-helper works:

• Each action should be logged and visible by user.
  • extract tarball with the existing sources to directory old_sources/<package_name>
  • extract tarball with the new sources to directory new_sources/<package_name>
  • Provide a list of patches mentioned in SPEC file
  • New spec file is stored in results/
• for all patches
  • apply all patches with git command to old_sources/<package_name> directory
  • add new_sources<package_name> to old_sources/<package_name> with command git rebase --onto new_sources <inital_commit> <last_commit>
  • solve all conflicts which arrise during the git rebase
• create srpm from old and new spec files & new sources & patches (Builder)
• rebuild srpm -> RPMs (Builder)
• Run rpmdiff tool for finding libraries and header changes.
• Inform user what libraries and header files were changed.

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Requirements

Packages which needs to be installed before you execute rebase-helper for first time:

• meld
• mock
• rpm-build
• pkgdiff at least 1.6.3
• python-six
• fedpkg
• pyrpkg
• libabigail

How to execute rebase-helper from CLI

Go to a git directory of your package and execute command ./rebase-helper <new_upstream_version>