Change Log

[Unreleased]

[0.16.1] - 2019-02-28

Fixed

  • Made GitPatchTool auto-skip empty commits caused by new rebase implementation in git 2.20
  • Fixed TestGitHelper to work on real systems with existing git configuration

[0.16.0] - 2019-02-27

Added

  • Added category for R packages
  • Added make test-podman as an alternative to make test-docker
  • Added --skip-upload option (to be used in conjunction with --update-sources)
  • Added check that all sources for the new version are present
  • Added SPEC hook for escaping macros in comments

Changed

  • --get-old-build-from-koji now tries to get specific version build (as opposed to the latest one)
  • Implemented parsing of multiline macros and shell expansions in SPEC files
  • rebase-helper can now handle multiline enquoted strings in %prep section
  • Refactored GitPatchTool to make the rebase process more robust and to preserve as much of the original downstream patches as possible
  • git mergetool is now run again if there are some unresolved conflicts left
  • Associated comments are now removed along with patches

Fixed

  • Fixed populating list of logs on build failures
  • Added missing abort after failed git am
  • Fixed processing SPEC files without %prep section
  • Fixed several issues in ruby-helper SPEC hook
  • Fixed unwanted expansion of %autosetup macro
  • Fixed automatic rebulding based on build log hooks result
  • Fixed removal of %doc and %license files in subpackages

Removed

  • Removed requests-kerberos support and switched to requests-gssapi exclusively

[0.15.0] - 2018-12-21

Added

  • Implemented build log hooks and added files hook to detect and fix missing/unpackaged files

Changed

  • Refactored and simplified all plugins

Fixed

  • Fixed not listing all argument choices while generating documentation
  • Fixed error in parsing rpmdiff output
  • Fixed insertion of extra blank lines to a SPEC file after removing patches

Removed

  • Removed unneeded packages from base Docker image

[0.14.0] - 2018-10-04

Added

  • Added PathsToRPMMacros SPEC hook for transforming paths in %files section
  • Added --favor-on-conflict option to prefer upstream or downstream changes with conflicting patches

Changed

  • Extended PyPIURLFix SPEC hook to incorporate the new https://pypi.org website
  • Made processing of patches in a SPEC file more robust
  • Rewritten functional test to use an artificial package designed to check most aspects of the rebase process
  • pylint is now run with Python 3 only, as Python 2 variant is no longer supported
  • Code refactoring, simplified SpecFile class
  • Checkers are no longer required for rebase-helper to run, only available checkers are used

Fixed

  • Fixed bug in licensecheck checker when used with json output tool
  • Fixed SPEC hook tests
  • Fixed strangely acting lookaside cache upload progressbar
  • Fixed downloading of SRPMs with --get-old-build-from-koji
  • Fixed building usage documentation

[0.13.2] - 2018-05-18

Added

  • Added licensecheck checker for detecting license changes
  • Added another not-so-verbose verbosity level

Changed

  • Refactored utils module

Fixed

  • Fixed abipkgdiff detecting changes in only one object file
  • Fixed uploads to lookaside cache
  • Fixed broken consequent build retries

[0.13.1] - 2018-04-19

Added

  • Added --apply-changes option to apply changes.patch after successful rebase
  • Implemented .gitignore update with --update-sources

Changed

  • Extended README.md
  • Cleaned up constants

Fixed

  • Fixed crash after failed rebase when no checkers were run

[0.13.0] - 2018-03-29

Added

  • Added possibility to make changes to specfile between build retries
  • Added CommitHashUpdater SPEC hook
  • Added hackage versioneer
  • Added support for uncompressed tar archives
  • Created integration environment for test suite to isolate it from the internet
  • Added --update-sources option to update sources file and upload new sources to lookaside cache

Changed

  • Switched to requests library for downloads
  • Made error messages from Koji builds more useful
  • Reworked handling of downstream patches
  • Changed package build process to build first SRPMs and then RPMs
  • Divided checkers into categories running at different phases of rebase
  • Koji build tool refactored to be better adjustable and extensible
  • Colorized rebase-helper output and enhanced log messages
  • Significatly improved rebase summary and report

Fixed

  • Fixed TestConsoleHelper.test_get_message() test
  • Fixed bug in rpmdiff output analysis
  • Fixed some code styling errors and a large number of issues found by static analysis

[0.12.0] - 2017-12-19

Added

  • Added npmjs and cpan versioneers
  • Added possibility to specify custom py.test arguments
  • Added possibility to customize changelog entry
  • Added version check to abort rebase if requested version is not newer than current
  • Added separate tox tasks for linting
  • Implemented rpmbuild and mock SRPM build tools
  • Added possibility to configure rebase-helper with configuration file
  • Added possibility to blacklist certain SPEC hooks or versioneers
  • Created rebasehelper/rebase-helper Docker Hub repository

Changed

  • Made several speed optimizations in the test suite
  • Tests requiring superuser privileges are now automatically skipped if necessary
  • Simplified build analysis and made related log messages more useful

Fixed

  • Fixed documentation builds on readthedocs.org broken by rpm distribution requirement
  • Fixed reading username and e-mail from git configuration
  • Added missing dependencies to Dockerfile
  • Fixed processing of custom builder options
  • Added workarounds for RPM bugs related to %sources and %patches
  • Fixed several unhandled exceptions
  • Fixed parsing tarball filename containing certain characters

[0.11.0] - 2017-10-04

Added

  • Added rpm-py-installer to install rpm-python from pip
  • Implemented detection of package category (python, perl, ruby, nodejs, php)
  • Added RubyGems versioneer
  • Added RubyHelper SPEC hook for getting additional sources based on instructions in SPEC file comments

Changed

  • Value of Version and Release tags is now preserved if there are any macros that can be modified instead
  • Versioneers and SPEC hooks are now run only for matching package categories
  • Bash completion is now generated from source code, so it is always up-to-date

Fixed

  • Prevented unwanted modifications of %prep section
  • Fixed unexpected removal of rpms and build logs after last build retry
  • Added files are no longer listed as removed in rpmdiff report

[0.10.1] - 2017-08-30

Added

  • Added --version argument

Changed

  • Anitya versioneer now primarily searches for projects using Fedora mapping
  • Python dependencies moved from requirements.txt to setup.py

Fixed

  • Made CustomManPagesBuilder work with Sphinx >= 1.6
  • %prep section parser is now able to handle backslash-split lines

[0.10.0] - 2017-08-25

Added

  • Implemented extensible SPEC hooks and versioneers
  • Added PyPI SPEC hook for automatic fixing of Source URL of Python packages
  • Added Anitya and PyPI versioneers for determining latest upstream version of a package
  • Added possibility to download old version build of a package from Koji
  • Added support for test suite to be run in Docker containers
  • Implemented functional tests for automatic testing of whole rebase process
  • Diff against original source files is now generated as changes.patch

Changed

  • Introduced plugin system for extending build tools, checkers and output tools
  • Updated for Koji 1.13 which finally brings Python 3 support
  • Improved output information and reports
  • Added colorized output
  • Improved project documentation

Fixed

  • Pre-configured git username and e-mail address is now used if available
  • Fixed several issues in rpmdiff and especially abipkgdiff checkers
  • Fixed several test suite related issues

[0.9.0] - 2017-01-05

Added

  • Old sources are now downloaded from Fedora lookaside cache
  • Auto-generated and improved CLI documentation and man page
  • Added support for downloading files of unknown size

Changed

  • SpecFile class preparation for pre-download hooks
  • Code cleanup and refactorization

Fixed

  • Fixed regexp for getting release number from SPEC
  • Fixed functionality of --results-dir option
  • Several upstream monitoring fixes
  • Fixed issues caused by Fedora Flag Day

[0.8.0] - 2016-07-31

Added

  • Added support for JSON output format
  • Added support for copr build tool
  • Added support for passing arbitrary extra arguments to local builders (mock, rpmbuild) with --builder-options.
  • Added new option --build-retries allows the user to specify number of build retries (by default 2)
  • Added support for csmock check tool

Changed

  • Renamed fedpkg build tool to koji to make it more clear
  • Downloading of files is now done only using standard Python library and not using PyCURL

Fixed

  • Many bug fixes and code clean up

[0.7.3] - 2016-04-08

Added

  • Added rpm.addMacro

Fixed

  • Handled exceptions raised during parsing of SPEC files
  • Fixed unapplied patches mixing with deleted ones

[0.7.2] - 2016-03-15

Added

  • Added information about scratch builds

Fixed

  • Added check if file exists and is empty for the-new-hotness
  • Patches are applied in case --builds-nowait option is used

[0.7.1] - 2016-02-22

Added

  • Two new command line options used by upstream monitoring

Fixed

  • fedpkg reimplementation

[0.7.0] - 2016-01-13

Changed

  • Several improvements

Fixed

  • pkgdiff is now smarter
  • Included tar.bz2 into list of supported formats
  • Added support for noarch package in case of fedpkg build
  • Checker should return None if there is no debug package

Removed

  • Removed a bunch of debug stuff

[0.6.2] - 2015-11-09

Fixed

  • Logs are being saved to their own directory
  • Prep script is moved into workspace directory
  • No more traceback in case koji module is not present
  • Each checker creates its own log file
  • rebase-helper informs if it failed or not
  • Report on script is smarter

[0.6.1] - 2015-10-30

Added

  • upstream-monitoring.py - used by upstream monitoring service
  • rebase-helper-fedmsg.py - testing Python script

[0.6.0] - 2015-07-31

Added

  • Parts of %prep section related to patching are executed
  • Support for abipkgdiff

Fixed

  • Several fixes
  • Replaced yum with dnf

[0.5.0] - 2015-05-22

Added

  • Added support for building packages via fedpkg (or koji)
  • Added summary report for better overview
  • continue option implemented for git rebase
  • Added several tests
  • Added class for operating with Git repositories

Changed

  • git rebase is used instead of patch command

Fixed

  • Fixed several decoding issues
  • Several PEP8 and W1202 fixes

Removed

  • DiffHelper class is not needed

[0.4.0] - 2014-12-05

Added

  • Handling of extra versions like b1, rc1, etc.
  • Added build log analyzer to detect unpackaged files or other issues
  • Added Bash completion

Changed

  • Improved version extraction from archive name
  • rebase-helper output is looged to rebase-helper-results directory
  • SpecFile class rewritten

[0.3.1] - 2014-07-25

Added

  • New build class
  • --build-only option
  • Installation of build dependencies in case of rpmbuild tool
  • More tests
  • RebaseHelperError class for catching exceptions

Fixed

  • Several fixes

[0.3.0]

Added

  • pkgdiff tool for comparing RPM packages
  • Tests for Archive class and SPEC file

[0.2.0]

Added

  • diff_helper for comparing two tarballs
  • Applying patches to tarballs
  • patch_helper

[0.1.0]

Added

  • Initial classes
  • CLI interface