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Week 23 and 24 in Packit

June 16, 2025 · One min read

Laura Barcziová

Week 23-24 (June 3rd – June 16th)

Team was attending and presenting at Flock to Fedora and Devconf.cz conferences. The highlight for us was connecting with so many Packit users in person! We want to thank everyone who attended our sessions and shared their feedback. If you are curious, here is the list of sessions we held:
Packit now exposes specfile_path from configuration (or its default value) as the environment variable PACKIT_SPECFILE_PATH for all Packit actions. (packit#2589)

Week 22 in Packit

June 2, 2025 · One min read

Week 22 (May 26th – June 1st)

We have added a new run-condition action that can be used to conditionally disable downstream jobs during the execution and aims to solve the following issue. (packit#2608, packit-service#2810)
We got a contribution for a typo in the error message when our Packit CLI tracebacks. Thanks a lot for the contribution, @mulkieran. (packit#2612)
We have fixed a bug in validation of the job trigger. (packit#2616)
We have added support for handling of minor EPEL releases for Copr builds. (packit#2619)

Week 21 in Packit

May 26, 2025 · One min read

František Lachman

Week 21 (May 20th – May 26th)

We have fixed a bug that caused specfile to traceback when section names with conditional macro expansions containing spaces were present in the spec file. (specfile#476)

Week 20 in Packit

May 19, 2025 · One min read

Week 20 (May 13th – May 19th)

We have added a support for passing upstream_package_name to the upstream_tag_template option. (packit#2604)

Week 19 in Packit

May 13, 2025 · One min read

František Lachman

Week 19 (May 5th – May 13th)

You can now validate a Packit config passed to the Packit CLI via a path, e.g., packit config validate -c /tmp/my-custom-packit-config.yml. (packit#2556)
Packit now runs custom TMT tests as part of CI on dist-git pull requests (documentation). (packit-service#2792)
We have fixed posting duplicated comments about invalid configurations. (packit-service#2788)

Week 18 in Packit

May 5, 2025 · One min read

Week 18 (April 29th – May 5th)

Installability check is now being run as part of CI on dist-git pull requests. For more information, please refer to our documentation. (packit-service#2782)
Support for Forgejo pull requests has been added. (ogr#925)

Week 16 in Packit

April 22, 2025 · One min read

František Lachman

Week 16 (April 16th – April 22nd)

The --resultdir argument in build_in_mock now defaults to the current directory ("."), preventing loss of build artifacts when not explicitly set. (packit#2567)
tf_extra_params should now be included when submitting the automatic upstream installability check to the Testing Farm. (packit-service#2779)

Week 15 in Packit

April 14, 2025 · One min read

Week 15 (April 8th – April 14th)

There is a new osh_options config option that allows you to customize OpenScanHub scans. (packit#2570)

Week 14 in Packit

April 7, 2025 · One min read

František Lachman

Week 14 (April 1st – April 7th)

When using fast_forward_merge_into, version_update_mask is now correctly being taken into consideration. (packit#2551)
We have introduced a new config command group for configuration-related commands and moved the validate-config command under it, resulting in the new command being packit config validate. (packit#2559)
It is now possible to retrigger dist-git CI scratch builds with /packit scratch-build. (packit-service#2770)

Week 13 in Packit

March 31, 2025 · One min read

Week 13 (March 25th – March 31st)

We have fixed an issue that could cause subsequent runs of propose_downstream/pull_from_upstream to fail if upstream git repo contains submodules that are manipulated with in actions. (packit-service#2768)
Packit now supports --base-nvr option when submitting scans to OpenScanHub. The base NVR is pulled in from Koji to perform a differential scan. (packit#2569)
Packit CLI now submits Koji builds in parallel. (packit#2568)