OSG Software Packaging SVN to Git Migration

On Monday, February 16th, 2025, the OSG Software Team will be migrating the repository that hosts the source for OSG Software RPM packages from a Subversion repo at https://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/svn to GitHub at https://github.com/osg-htc/software-packaging.

The new repo is available for preview and testing builds from but changes will not be preserved; you should keep using the SVN repo until the switchover.

Requirements

To use the new repo, you must have the latest OSG-Build, 2.2.1. Run osg-build --version to check which version you are using. If using it from Git, be sure you're on the V2-branch.

Note the OSG Build Tools page has been updated with information about how to get the software via Pip or Apptainer.

You must also have write permission to the osg-htc/software-packaging repo; contact a software team member to request access.

Workflow changes

The layout of the GitHub repo is the same as the SVN repo -- each set of targets, such as 24-main, is a separate top-level directory, with package directories under it.

Koji scratch builds are performed from the local file system as usual. To do a non-scratch build, you must push your changes to the main branch of the upstream repo.

Feel free to push directly to the main branch -- no need to make a pull request, unless you want your changes reviewed.

The development process page has been updated with these new instructions as well as some advice for keeping track of changes when building packages for multiple release series.

If you have Python 3.9 or newer, consider installing pre-commit; the hook in the repo should prevent you from accidentally checking in large files.