go2rpm

go2rpm is a Python application designed to assist in the creation of RPM specfiles for Go (Golang) projects. It automates the process of fetching project details, determining dependencies, and generating a specfile.

Features

• Automatic Specfile Generation: go2rpm automatically generates RPM specfiles based on the Go project's details and structure.
• Support for Various Forges: go2rpm works with different code hosting platforms such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Pagure, and Gitea.
• Up to commit level spec generation: go2rpm can create a spec file based on a project's latest release or tag (default) or a custom version, tag, or commit.

Usage

To use go2rpm, execute the application with the necessary parameters:

go2rpm [OPTIONS] GO_IMPORT_PATH

Options

• -r, --rpmautospec: Use autorelease and autochangelog features (default)
• -n, --no-rpmautospec: Use static release and changelog instead of rpmautospec
• -L, --use-new-versioning: Enable new naming scheme for versioned compat packages (default)
• --no-use-new-versioning: Use older naming scheme for versioned compat packages
• --no-auto-changelog-entry: Do not generate a changelog entry
• --dynamic-buildrequires: Use dynamic BuildRequires feature (default)
• -R, --no-dynamic-buildrequires: Do not use dynamic BuildRequires feature
• -C, --clean: Clean cache for chosen Go import path (default)
• --no-clean: Do not clean the cache
• --clean-all: Clean all cached Go imports
• -d, --create-directory: Save the final specfile output to NAME/NAME.spec
• --name: Use a specific name for the spec file
• --print-name: Print the generated package name and exit
• -q, --no-spec-warnings: Exclude warning comments from generated specfile
• -t, --tag: Use especified package tag
• -a, --altipaths: Include alternate import paths
• -c, --commit: Use especified package commit
• -f, --forge: Forge URLs
• -p, --profile: Use specified profile. Options are:
  1. 1: Use legacy macros
  2. 2: Default. Use current macros
  3. vendor: Use bundled vendored dependencies
• -v, --version: Use especified package versions
• --stdout: Print spec into stdout

Examples

# Generate specfile a project hosted on GitHub
go2rpm github.com/rhysd/actionlint

# Generate specfile for a project where import path doesn't match the repository
go2rpm --forge https://github.com/kubernetes/api k8s.io/api

# Generate specfile for a project using a specific commit
go2rpm --commit c2c7a15d6c994356c68dc7a14868c3519836286b --forge 'https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/go-scfg' 'git.sr.ht/~emersion/go-scfg'

# Generate specfile for a project using a specific version
go2rpm -v 2.1.0 github.com/hashicorp/hcl/v2

# Generate specfile with a custom name. This is useful for application packages.
go2rpm --name gh -f https://github.com/cli/cli github.com/cli/cli/v2

# Generate specfile with support for bundled vendoring.
go2rpm --profile vendor -d github.com/cri-o/cri-o --name cri-o

Bundled vendored dependencies

NOTE:

go-vendor-tools, with which go2rpm interfaces to implement this functionality, is under active development and may be subject to breaking changes. Please see go-vendor-tools' Stability note for more information and join the Fedora Go SIG Matrix room and mailing list to be notified of any major changes.

Current Fedora Golang packaging guidelines recommend unbundling packages by default. Bundled dependencies are allowed with justification. For instance, a complex application with multiple unpackaged dependencies may justify vendoring.

go2rpm can generate a specfile with support for bundled dependencies using the --profile vendor option. Packagers must also install go-vendor-tools alongside go2rpm to support the additional requirements for building and maintaining Golang packages with bundled vendored dependencies. dnf install go2rpm+vendor will ensure that the necessary dependencies are installed.

For more information, see the Go Vendor Tools documentation. Specific package workflow examples for bundled dependencies are in the Scenarios section.

Requirements

• Python 3
• Git
• Askalono (a license detection tool)
• Aiohttp (for asynchronous HTTP requests)
• Go Vendor Tools (when --profile vendor is used)

License

This application is licensed under the MIT License. Feel free to modify and distribute it in accordance with the license terms.