Adding Side Build Targets SOP

Description
Bigger Features can take a while to stabalise and land or need a large number of packages to be built against each other, this is easiest served by having a separate build tag for the development work. This SOP will describe the steps necessary to prepare the new build target.

Action
Adding a side build target is fairly straight forward, but comes with a cost of extra newRepo tasks in koji.

Koji
In koji a tag needs to be made, it needs to inherit from the -build tag of the base your wanting to develop against,  this is to ensure that group info makes it into your tag so you can build sucessfully. As we will be building against this tag we need to give it the needed arches also.

The,  ,  , and   commands are used. $ koji add-tag --help Usage: koji add-tag [options] name (Specify the --help global option for a list of other help options)

Options: -h, --help      show this help message and exit --parent=PARENT Specify parent --arches=ARCHES Specify arches

$ koji add-target --help Usage: koji add-target name build-tag  (Specify the --help global option for a list of other help options)

Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit

For example if we wanted to create the EPEL tags to build XFCE, we would do the following: koji add-tag epel6-xfce48 --parent=dist-6E-epel-build --arches="i686,x86_64,ppc64" koji add-target epel6-xfce48 epel6-xfce48

Verification
check in koji that a newRepo task is created for your new tag and has the appropriate arches

Consider Before Running

 * Is the amount of work to be done worth the cost of newRepo tasks.
 * If there is only a small number of packages overrides may be better.