`osc release PROJECT` fails silently - must specify a PACKAGE

[rhaberkorn]

Describe the bug
osc release silently fails when given only a project instead of releasing all packages. It works when specifying exactly one package. According to the manpage, I was under the impression that package is optional.
This could of course be a backend issue as well, but osc still shouldn't fail silently.

Versions

• Operating system: openSUSE Tumbleweed
• Packages: osc-1.23.0-1.1.noarch

To Reproduce

1. osc release --no-delay PROJECT; echo $?
2. No error, return code 0.

Expected behavior
I would expect that all packages from the given project are released into the project's target.

Additional context
I can debug the backend if necessary (it's a private instance).

[rhaberkorn]

btw. it's not possible to release only binary packages, isn't it? The thing is when I osc wipebinaries --all PROJECT, my packages are rebuilt immediately. But this might be an entirely different bug.

[rhaberkorn]

I also noticed than when you osc release packages in the "wrong" order, OBS might still eventually rebuild from source in the release target. Let's say package pkg-a depends on package pkg-b, then osc release --no-delay PROJECT pkg-a; osc release --no-delay PROJECT pkg-b will result in a rebuild of pkg-a.

But this is obviously a backend issue?

[dmach]

osc release silently fails when given only a project instead of releasing all packages.

It used to work in the past, but the tests have been failing for some time:

osc release test:factory --repo=standard --target-project=test:release --target-repository=distro-1-ga

@adrianschroeter I remember you were telling me something about this in the past.
Isn't there a change in behavior or a regression in OBS?

But this is obviously a backend issue?

Yes, it most likely is.
OBS doesn't support triggering multiple package releases in a single request as the URL is /source/<project>/<package>?cmd=release&<args>.... So it dispatches them in the order they come through the API and handles them one by one with all the side-effects. I think.

[adrianschroeter]

Is this about api.opensuse.org? there are some fixes to be merged for release mechnic, I won't debug it until this happens ...