Hi,

a small summary about Rebase-helper project.

The purpose of the rebase-helper is to save developer's time during package rebases.

Rebase-helper is intended to be run in the cloned (Fedora) package repo and needs only the path to the archive (tarball) with new upstream sources. The rest is automated. If any decision is needed, the developer is prompted.

The current workflow is as follows:

Download archive with the current (old) and new sources
For all existing patches apply them, one at a time, to new sources and help with rebasing patches if needed (using tool like 'meld')
Build packages (old and new) automatically.
In the future we will perform various checks (rpmdiff, API/ABI check, etc.) and add them to Upstream Monitoring in Fedora

GitHub repository is:

https://github.com/phracek/rebase-helper

If you would like to try rebase-helper then only clone the github repository
or install rebase-helper package which is already available in Fedora 20.

And try:
rebase-helper <upstream-sources>

If you discover any issues, feel free to add a new issue on github
https://github.com/phracek/rebase-helper/issues?state=open

and we will work on fixing them based on their severity.

What will be another steps?

Add support for rpmdiff
Add support for API/ABI check
Add support for more patching mechanisms - like git patch alghorithm (mentioned by Kamil Dudka)
Upstream Monitoring in Fedora
you name it... ;)

Any feedback and comments are welcome either on IRC: #rebase-helper or to us.
Contact persons (alphabetically):
- Jiri Popelka (jpopelka)

- Tomas Hozza (thozza)

- Petr Hracek (phracek)

Rebase-helper team
Greetings

Petr

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Best regards / S pozdravem
Petr Hracek