Help wanted packaging for Linux distributions

[hickford]

Help wanted packaging for Linux distributions. https://repology.org/project/git-credential-oauth

[shyim]

Let me know if you need help with Nix :)

[hickford]

@shyim yes please. I started at NixOS/nixpkgs#235073 but I don't have a NixOS system to test

[shyim]

NixOS/nixpkgs#235464

[shyim]

Do you maybe want to link:

[![Packaging status](https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/git-credential-oauth.svg)](https://repology.org/project/git-credential-oauth/versions)

in the readme?

[hickford]

Good idea, done. a7fd2a4

[hickford]

Void Linux void-linux/void-packages#44237

[bsteinb]

Are there any plans to publish packages to EPEL so git-credential-oauth can be installed conveniently on RHEL and its rebuilds? I noticed that a SPEC file is there already, but probably not hooked up to produce and publish RPMs.

I recently attempted to build that SPEC and had no luck on RHEL 9.4 due to issues in the RPM Go infrastructure. Those seem to have been fixed as of RHEL 9.5, however, and the SPEC file now builds successfully (with some small modifications to bring it in line with the SPEC files for more recent versions of git-credential-oauth in Fedora).

[hickford]

@bsteinb I'd like to but I don't have the necessary app fedpkg installed. Can you help?

• https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/git-credential-oauth and https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/golang-x-oauth2
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Go
• https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Update_Guide/
• https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Joining_the_Package_Maintainers/

[bsteinb]

No, sorry. The fedpkg tool itself seems to only be a dnf install away, but that looks like the smallest step in becoming a package maintainer. Skimming the pages you linked it also involves getting multiple accounts to various services, signing up to mailing lists and introducing oneself to the packager community, getting sponsored, reading a bunch of guidelines, etc.