RDO infrastructure and tooling has been changing/improving with each OpenStack release and we now have our own packaging workflow powered by RPM factory at review.rdoproject.org, designed to keep up with supersonic speed of upstream development.

Let’s see what it takes to land a patch in RDO CloudSIG repos with the new workflow!

The Quest

This is a short story about backporting an upstream OpenStack Swift patch into RDO Mitaka openstack-swift package.

Please consult RDO Packaging docs for additional information.

First Things First

Make sure you have latest rdopkg from jruzicka/rdopkg copr. This is a new code added alongside existing functionality and it isn’t well tested yet, bugs need to be ironed out. If you encounter rdopkg bug, please report how it broke.

Inspect rdoinfo package metadata including various URLs using rdopkg info:

$ rdopkg info openstack-swift

name: openstack-swift
project: swift
conf: rpmfactory-core
upstream: git://git.openstack.org/openstack/swift
patches: http://review.rdoproject.org/r/p/openstack/swift.git
distgit: http://review.rdoproject.org/r/p/openstack/swift-distgit.git
master-distgit: http://review.rdoproject.org/r/p/openstack/swift-distgit.git
review-origin: ssh://review.rdoproject.org:29418/openstack/swift-distgit.git
review-patches: ssh://review.rdoproject.org:29418/openstack/swift.git
tags:
  liberty: null
  mitaka: null
  newton: null
  newton-uc: null
maintainers: 
- zaitcev@redhat.com

Yeah, that’s the Swift we want. Let’s use rdopkg clone to clone the distgit and also setup remotes according to rdoinfo entry above:

$ rdopkg clone [-u githubnick] openstack-swift

Which results in following remotes:

* origin:          http://review.rdoproject.org/r/p/openstack/swift-distgit.git
* patches:         http://review.rdoproject.org/r/p/openstack/swift.git
* review-origin:   ssh://githubnick@review.rdoproject.org:29418/openstack/swift-distgit.git
* review-patches:  ssh://githubnick@review.rdoproject.org:29418/openstack/swift.git
* upstream:        git://git.openstack.org/openstack/swift

Send patch for review

Patches are now stored as open gerrit review chains on top of upstream version tags so patches remote is now obsolete legacy.

Start with inspecting distgit:

$ git checkout mitaka-rdo
$ rdopkg pkgenv

Package:   openstack-swift
NVR:       2.7.0-1
Version:   2.7.0
Upstream:  2.9.0
Tag style: X.Y.Z

Patches style:          review
Dist-git branch:        mitaka-rdo
Local patches branch:   mitaka-patches
Remote patches branch:  patches/mitaka-patches 
Remote upstream branch: upstream/master
Patches chain:          unknown

OS dist:                RDO
RDO release/dist guess: mitaka/el7

rdopkg patchlog doesn’t support review workflow yet, sorry.

Next, use rdopkg get-patches to create local patches branch from associated gerrit patches chain and switch to it:

$ rdopkg get-patches

Cherry-pick the patch into newly created mitaka-patches branch. Upstream source is available in upstream remote.

$ git cherry-pick -x deadbeef

Finally, send the patch for review with rdopkg review-patch which is just a convenience shortcut to git review -r review-origin $BRANCH:

$ rdopkg review-patch

This will print an URL to patch review such as https://review.rdoproject.org/r/#/c/1145/.

Get +2 +1V on the patch review

Patches are never merged, they are kept as open review chains in order to preserve full patch history.

You need to get +2 from a reviewer and +1 Verified from the CI.

Update .spec and send it for review

Once the patch has been reviewed, update the .spec file in mitaka-rdo:

$ git checkout mitaka-rdo
$ rdopkg patch

You can also select specific patches chain by review number with -g/--gerrit-patches-chain:

$ rdopkg patch -g 1337

Inspect the newly created commit which should contain all necessary changes. If you need to adjust something, do so and use rdopkg amend to git commit -a --amend with nice commit message generated from changelog.

Finally, submit distgit change for review with

$ rdopkg review-spec

Review URL is printed. This is a regular review and once it’s merged, you’re done.

Happy packaging!