[CentOS-devel] Proposal for CentOS dist-git design

Tue Nov 25 15:47:27 UTC 2014
Pat Riehecky <riehecky at fnal.gov>

On 11/25/2014 09:30 AM, Honza Horak wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> this is related to the new SCL SIG [1], which is supposed to bring SCL 
> development into CentOS, which is supposed to become upstream for 
> Software Collections.
>
> I've promised I'd look at how dist-git could look like on CentOS side, 
> since we want to start keeping source code for SCLs under CentOS soon.
>
> So, [2] is a proposal -- please, take a look at it, so we have 
> something to start with. Let's see if it is feasible.
>
> We can also move it to CentOS wiki, which would be more appropriate 
> place for it, but I cannot figure out a where I have permissions to 
> add some new content to.
>
> More information about Software Collections concepts is available at [3].
>
> What next? I think we should gather some feedback on this proposal, 
> try to figure out open questions there. Then we will pick up some 
> software collection and create some PoC build from CentOS dist-git.
>
> Regards,
> Honza
>
> [1] http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo
> [2] 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Hhorak/Draft/centos-scl-git-proposal
> [3] https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/docs/guide/
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My primary concern with [2] is how it integrates with the existing SCLs 
withing git.c.o.  [4]

As a downstream consumer, I would prefer not to rebuild my workflow.

Can this be further elaborated upon?

Pat

[4] a few quick examples:
https://git.centos.org/summary/rpms!mysql55-mysql
https://git.centos.org/summary/rpms!nodejs010-nodejs-mongodb
https://git.centos.org/summary/rpms!postgresql92-postgresql
https://git.centos.org/summary/rpms!python33-mod_wsgi

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Pat Riehecky

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