On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 1:01 PM Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org wrote:
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 12:39:40PM -0500, Kaleb Keithley wrote:
would make sense. And we could even make additional shared branches where necessary, using modularity to make optional streams which could be used in CentOS SIGs, EPEL, or a Fedora OS.
Sounds great.
But I hope we don't have to wait for all that to happen before we get C8 buildroots in CBS for the SIGs to build packages.
Is it possible for SIGs to build those packages in EPEL directly or Copr (via the EPEL 8 target) in the meantime?
It is possible. I can (and do) build --scratch packages in koji. I can't do real builds in EPEL because there are downstream packages in RHEL.
But whether I build them there or in Copr it's still not the same as having them in the CentOS $sig repos and have them be installable using the $package-repo RPM from Extras. It's about convenience for the end users, one stop shopping, the appearance of legitimacy and the cachet of being a part of CentOS, etc.
Which was the point of putting our packages in the (Storage) SIG in the first place.
Asking us to build them in EPEL or Copr is a step backwards.
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Kaleb