How do Proven Packagers do their task?

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I’d like to learn more about how you can change tons of packages at once. How do you automate it? How do you generate %changelog entries for many packages at once? Do you have scripts examples that you can share?

Thanks.

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Workflow I use:

  1. Have full git repositories clone locally (I use grokmirror with script from the page to have non-bare repos too).
  2. Whenever I want to change anything, I usually find packages I want to touch. Then write some script to do changes, run git-diff across all those repos to make sure that changes are correct.
  3. rpmdev-bumpspec to bump release across those packages.
  4. git-push for them with xargs -n1 -P8
  5. fedpkg build --nowait for them with xargs -n1 -P16