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Package Database - SOP

Contact Information

Owner: Fedora Infrastructure Team

Contact: #fedora-admin

Persons: abadger1999

Location: Phoenix

Servers: admin.fedoraproject.org -- app3 app4

Purpose: Manage package ownership

Description

The PackageDB is used by Fedora developers to manage package ownership and acls. It controls who is allowed to commit to a package and who gets notification of changes to packages.

PackageDB project Trac: https://fedorahosted.org/packagedb/

Troubleshooting and Resolution

Adding a new Pseudo User as a package owner

Sometimes you want to have a mailing list own a package so that bugzilla email is assigned to the mailing list. Doing this requires adding a new pseudo user to the account system and assigning that person as the package maintainer.

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In the following examples, replace ("xen", "kernel-xen-2.6") with the packages you are assigning to the new user and 9902 to the userid you select in step 2
  • Log into a box that can access db2.
  • Log into the db as a user that can make changes
$ psql -U apache -h db2 fedorausers
fedorausers>
  • Find the current pseudo-users
fedorausers>  select id, username from person where id < 10000 order by id;
id  |     username
------+------------------
9900 | orphan
9901 | anaconda-maint
  • Create a new account with the next available id after 9900
fedorausers> insert into person (id, username, email, human_name, password, creation,
approval_status, otrs_orgid) values (9902, 'xen-maint', 'xen-maint@redhat.com',
'Xen Maintainers', '', now(), 'approved', 'Fedora');
  • Connect to the pkgdb as a user that can make changes
$ psql -U pkgdbadmin -h db2 pkgdb
pkgdb>
  • Add the current package owner as a comaintainer of the package. If this user is not currently on he acls for the package you can use the following database queries:
insert into personpackagelisting (userid, packagelistingid)
select pl.owner, pl.id from packagelisting as pl, package as p
where p.id = pl.packageid and p.name in ('xen', 'kernel-xen-2.6');
insert into personpackagelistingacl (personpackagelistingid, acl, statuscode)
select ppl.id, 'build', 3 from personpackagelisting as ppl, packagelisting as pl, package as p
where p.id = pl.packageid and pl.id = ppl.packagelistingid and pl.owner = ppl.userid
and p.name in ('xen', 'kernel-xen-2.6');
insert into personpackagelistingacl (personpackagelistingid, acl, statuscode)
select ppl.id, 'commit', 3 from personpackagelisting as ppl, packagelisting as pl, package as p
where p.id = pl.packageid and pl.id = ppl.packagelistingid
and pl.owner = ppl.userid
and p.name in ('xen', 'kernel-xen-2.6');
insert into personpackagelistingacl (personpackagelistingid, acl, statuscode)
select ppl.id, 'approveacls', 3 from personpackagelisting as ppl, packagelisting as pl, package as p
where p.id = pl.packageid and pl.id = ppl.packagelistingid
and pl.owner = ppl.userid
and p.name in ('xen', 'kernel-xen-2.6');

If the owner is in the acls, you will need to figure out which packages already acls and only add the new acls for that one.

  • Reassign the pseudo-user to be the new owner
update packagelisting set owner = 9902 from package as p
where packagelisting.packageid = p.id and p.name in ('xen', 'kernel-xen-2.6');