[CentOS-devel] Community build services and EPEL8

Thu Jul 25 07:02:45 UTC 2019
Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>

Il giorno ven 12 lug 2019 alle ore 18:59 Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>
ha scritto:

> On 12/07/2019 18:35, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > On 7/12/19 12:23 AM, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Il giorno mer 10 lug 2019 alle ore 22:53 Thomas Oulevey
> >> <thomas.oulevey at cern.ch <mailto:thomas.oulevey at cern.ch>> ha scritto:
> >>
> >>     Hello folks,
> >>
> >>     In the planning of next Community build services, a new question
> >>     came up.
> >>
> >>     In the past we never allowed EPEL repositories to be used as
> external
> >>     repositories for SIGs. Doing so, would allow to build against EPEL
> >>     packages and not duplicate the work for maintainers in EPEL/SIGs.
> >>
> >>     However it would mean also building against a moving target which
> >>     can be
> >>     difficult if EPEL policies are the same as today.
> >>
> >>     As EPEL 8 is also in the making it would be good to hear what SIGs
> >>     think
> >>     about this specific issue.
> >>
> >>     Let us know !
> >>
> >>
> >> Within Virt SIG, under oVirt project we are rebuilding a few packages
> >> from EPEL without modifications.
> >> Being able to tag into our repos packages which are available in EPEL
> >> would reduce the load on the SIG.
> >>
> >
> > The issue is .. they change the versions out and you then lose that
> > package.  next build it fails with the new one .. what do you do?  The
> > old package is no longer available anywhere.
> >
> > If you build that package .. then you can move to the new one whenever
> > you want.
> >
> > So there are pluses and minuses abound in both scenarios.
> >
>
> Just wondering : if people would like to consume epel pkgs, but still
> want to cherry-pick which version of pkgs they need/want : what about :
> - creating tag/targets for epel (but not building *any* pkg there)
> - rsync (without any delete) epel
> - use "koji import" to import all epel pkgs, and also new versions when
> new pkgs appear
>
> That would mean : nothing to build on cbs, and people can just "cbs
> tag-build" existing imported pkgs.
>
> Would that work for everybody ?
>

Works for me



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