On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 13:36 +0000, Ankur Sinha wrote: > Hiya! > > Can the summary and description of a package be changed on pkgdb? > > Also, if it can't, is it OK if the summary and description on pkgdb > differ from the spec? > > Ref: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296914 Got my answer from puiterwijk over IRC: Pkgdb picks up the summary and description from the spec itself, so one just needs to update the spec and it should reflect in pgkdb after the next push.

Dne 8.1.2016 v 14:45 Tom Hughes napsal(a): > On 08/01/16 13:41, Ankur Sinha wrote: >> On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 13:36 +0000, Ankur Sinha wrote: >>> Hiya! >>> >>> Can the summary and description of a package be changed on pkgdb? >>> >>> Also, if it can't, is it OK if the summary and description on pkgdb >>> differ from the spec? >>> >>> Ref: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296914 >> >> Got my answer from puiterwijk over IRC: >> >> Pkgdb picks up the summary and description from the spec itself, so one >> just needs to update the spec and it should reflect in pgkdb after the >> next push. > > So the whole business of faffing around extracting the description to > paste into the new package form is a bit pointless then, because it > will just get overwritten when the initial spec is pushed? > > Does that apply to the upstream URL as well? Description and URL are optional. And the refresh is done just once in while (like once per week? but it might change already, who knows :).

On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 13:41 +0000, Ankur Sinha wrote: > Pkgdb picks up the summary and description from the spec itself, so > one > just needs to update the spec and it should reflect in pgkdb after > the > next push. That seems weird to me because I forgot to add a description in pkgdb when I created ola. But that was almost a month ago but the overview[1] still says "(no description in pkgdb)" while the subpackages do have their descriptions from the spec file. [1] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ola