fedora-update-feedback

This project is inspired by fedora-easy-karma, but with more features.

It allows submitting feedback for bugs and test cases in addition to providing a comment and karma.

By default, all updates in testing or pending state that the user has not submitted themselves or has already commented on are presented, sorted by ascending submission date (so, oldest to most recent update).

requirements

The program assumes that the dnf and rpm binaries are present on the system (which is probably a reasonable assumption for a CLI tool targeted at fedora users).

It also expects a config file at ~/.config/fedora.toml, with at least the following contents:

[FAS]
username = "USERNAME"

This value is used to filter out updates that the user themselves has submitted, or has already commented on.

installation

To compile the program, first install cargo (the build tool, also pulls in the Rust compiler) and openssl-devel (used by the OpenSSL rust bindings).

To download, build, and install the latest version from https://crates.io, just run cargo install fedora-update-feedback.

To build from the sources provided on GitHub, download the sources (recommended: tarball of the latest release from GitHub), and easily build and install the binary for yourself by running cargo install --path . in the source directory.

Either way, cargo will install the binary into ~/.cargo/bin by default.

To make it available in $PATH, either copy it into $HOME/.local/bin, or add ~/.cargo/bin to your $PATH (probably by editing ~/.bash_profile).

TODO

• I'd like to improve the "visual quality" of the terminal output and pretty-printed data, which should be easy.

• It would be great to add additional switches and arguments to the binary (for example, sorting updates by a different value than submission date).

• Ignoring certain updates or packages is not yet implemented.