When to create patches

Uyuni is a rolling release product. Patches are provided only for really important bugs or vulnerabilities.

Procedure

Prepare the packages

You need to get packages into https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/systemsmanagement:Uyuni:Master:Patches

The packages need to be based on the latest Uyuni released version.

For git packages from https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni:

• Apply patches to the correct Uyuni-XXXX.YY branch
• Tag there
• Backport the changes and the tagging to master with a PR and the merge option (don't use rebase or squash)
• Submit using https://ci.suse.de/view/Manager/view/Uyuni/job/uyuni-master-releng-2obs-patch/build?delay=0sec (make sure you check wipe_project ans specify the packages to be submitted).

For packages that don't come from https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni:

• If you don't have any package from https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni, wipe all packages from https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/systemsmanagement:Uyuni:Master:Patches (otherwise you already wiped on the previous setup for git packages)
• Branch the package from https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/systemsmanagement:Uyuni:Stable
• Create a patchfile and a changelog entry and bump the package version. Or even better, get new sources and a new real release.
• Submit a SR to systemsmanagement:Uyuni:Master:Patches

Release

Run:

osc release systemsmanagement:Uyuni:Master:Patches

This will get the packages into https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/systemsmanagement:Uyuni:Stable:Patches

Announce the patch.

The patch can get installed by running:

zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/Stable:/Patches/openSUSE_Leap_15.4/systemsmanagement:Uyuni:Stable:Patches.repo
zypper ref

And then applying the patch as a regular Uyuni update (stop services, zypper up, start services)