Fedora Easy Karma

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fedora-easy-karma allows you to easily portion out karma points for testing updates that you have currently installed. The typical workflow is as follows:

1. install packages from updates-testing: su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update'
2. Use these packages to identify breakage or directly run fedora-easy-karma and test packages according to the update notes
3. Run fedora-easy-karma

Installation

You need version 0.4.0 or greater of fedora-packager to use this script. You can install fedora-easy-karma for any supported Fedora release by using the command: su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install fedora-easy-karma'

Example Output

$ fedora-easy-karma --help
Usage: fedora-easy-karma [options] [pattern, ..]

You will be asked for every package installed from updates-testing to provide
feedback using karma points. If patterns are provided, you will be only prompted
for updates related to packages or builds that match any of the patterns.
Possible wildcards are *, ?, [seq] and [!seq] as explained at
http://docs.python.org/library/fnmatch.html
After selecting the karma points, you will be asked for a comment. An empty
comment skips the update.

Possible karma points are:
-1 : Update breaks something or does not fix a bug it is supposed to
 0 : The update has not been tested much or at all
 1 : The update seems not to break anything new
All other inputs will skip the update.
You can use <CTRL>-<D> on an empty prompt to exit
If you use a default comment, '<CTRL>-<X> <backspace>' can be used to delete the
default comment to easily enter a custom one.

The source can be found at
http://fedorapeople.org/gitweb?p=till/public_git/fedora-easy-karma.git;a=summary
Please send bug reports and feature requests to
'Till Maas <opensource@till.name>'
For patches please use 'git send-email'.

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --bodhi-cached        Use cached bodhi query
  --bodhi-cachedir=BODHI_CACHEDIR
                        Directory to store bodhi cache, default: ~/.fedora-
                        easy-karma
  --bodhi-update-cache  Update bodhi query cache
  --critpath-only       Only consider unapproved critpath updates
  --debug               Enable debug output
  --default-comment=COMMENT
                        Default comment to use, default:
  --default-karma=KARMA
                        Default karma to use, default:
  --fas-username=FAS_USERNAME
                        FAS username
  --include-commented   Also ask for more comments on updates that already got
                        a comment from you, this is enabled if patterns are
                        provided
  --installed-max-days=DAYS
                        Only check packages installed within the last XX days,
                        default: 28
  --installed-min-days=DAYS
                        Only check packages installed for at least XX days,
                        default: 0
  --list-rpms-only      Only list affected rpms
  --no-skip-empty-comment
                        Do not skip update if comment is empty
  --product=PRODUCT     product to query Bodhi for, 'F' for Fedora, 'EL-' for
                        EPEL, default: F
  --releasever=RELEASEVER
                        releasever to query Bodhi for, default: releasever
                        from yum
  --retries=RETRIES     Number if retries when submitting a comment in case of
                        an error, default: 3
  --wrap-bugs           Apply line-wrapping to bugs
  --wrap-rpms           Apply line-wrapping to list of installed rpms
  --wrap-width=WRAP_WIDTH
                        Width to use for line wrapping of updates, default: 80
$ fedora-easy-karma
Getting list of installed packages...
Getting list of packages in updates-testing...
================================================================================
     fedora-easy-karma-0-0.7.20100709git561718c8.fc12
================================================================================
  Update ID: FEDORA-2010-11029
    Release: Fedora 12
     Status: testing
       Type: enhancement
      Karma: 1
      Notes: Introduce the --critpath-only parameter.
  Submitter: till
  Submitted: 2010-07-09 15:30:58
   Comments: bodhi - 2010-07-09 15:30:58 (karma 0)
             This update has been submitted for testing by till.
             bodhi - 2010-07-13 07:45:42 (karma 0)
             This update has been pushed to testing
             robatino (proventesters) - 2010-07-13 08:49:36 (karma 1)
             Seems to work properly.

  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-11029

 inst. RPMS: fedora-easy-karma-0-0.7.20100709git561718c8.fc12.noarch - Fedora update feedback made easy (installed 0 days ago)

Comment? -1/0/1 ->karma, other -> skip> 1
Comment> It works perfectly.
FAS Password for till:

Example Workflows

Update Everything, then look at updates and perform some direct testing

First update:

yum update --enablerepo="*-testing"

The run fedora-easy-karma:

fedora-easy-karma

Now read the presented update information. If there is an update to would like to test, do it now in parallel, e.g. if it is a text editor, run it, open some files, edit something etc. If you are content with the application, enter "1" in fedora-easy-karma and describe what you did. If something broke, please file a bug report, enter "-1" in fedora-easy-karma and mention the bug in the comment. If you do not know how to test the package, just skip it hitting "Enter".

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: I just updated package foo from updates-testing, but when I run fedora-easy-karma, why I am not asked for feedback?

A: The update for the package is probably already requested to become stable or maybe to be unpushed from testing. You will not be asked for feedback on such updates. If you found a new bug, please open a bug report instead.

Source

Currently the source is available at a Fedorapeople git repository