automating updates

[pingou]

Neal Becker wrote:
> I'm trying to automate the upstream updates of my packages (somewhat).  The
> procedure seems to be:
> 
> 1. In devel:
>   1.1 make new-sources
>   1.2 update .spec
>   1.3 cvs ci -m 'update to xxx'
>   1.4 make tag build
> 
> 2. cp -l -f .spec sources .cvsignore ../F9
>    cp -l -f .spec sources .cvsignore ../F9
> 
> 3. for n in 9 8; do ( cd F-$n; cvs ci -m 'update to 1.0.1' && make tag build
> && bodhi -n -r F$n -t enhancement mercurial-1.0.1-4.fc$n ); done
> 
> What's not automated?
> 
> Howto get the current tag (e.g., mercurial-1.0.1-4.fc9)?
> Optional - extract cvs ci message from spec changelog
> 
> Howto get bodhi to stop asking for a password?
> 

Not long ago I wrote a small python script for automatic update of 
package needing few work.
You can find the new version there:
http://pingoured.fr/public/updateCVS_0.2.py

I also published it there
http://pingoured.fr/blog/index.php?post/2008/06/01/UpdateCVSc_01
and Spot came with the answer to the
"How to start build and not wait that he has finished ?"


If that can help...

Regards,

Pierre