[CentOS-devel] Preliminary RHEL 8 review

Thu May 9 23:16:53 UTC 2019
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>

On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 19:08, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 18:54, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 5:16 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> >>> 3) Mock is going to be.... awkward to port, due to multiple python
>> >>> dependencies in on the DVD.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Do you mean with using the system-python or using a python module?
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>> I mean lots of modules, including pytest and python-setuptools_scm. It
>> also lacks doxygen.
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> Yeah it became clearer in your email I got after I sent this that you had
> dropped the explanation of what you meant.
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>> > I believe for most compilations you need 1 more repository, Code Ready
>> Linux Builder which contains a lot of the items you are looking for. With
>> that enabled, you should be able to compile mock (at least my mockchain
>> does not complain about missing packages).
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>> Thank you for the pointer. I can believe that many such modules are in
>> a distinct channel. It's certainly not on the installation DVD. The
>> idea that "Code Ready Linux Builder" would contain various python
>> modules, but that basic sofrtware building tools like gcc, make, and
>> rpmbuild are om the basic AppStream channel seems..... well, it seems
>> contradictory to me. I see that channel mentioned in plans for RHEL 8
>> at
>> https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/15/introducing-codeready-linux-builder/
>> .
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>> Is there any plan to support separating out this channel for CentOS? I
>> hope it will be accessible by default in the base configurations, I
>> really don't want to have deduce that my Chef configurations that need
>> to compile small local tools need to also already be subscribed to
>> such a separate channel.
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> I do not know what the plans are for how things will be separated out yet.
> As you point out the split of things is rather... chaotic and could be
> prone to change upstream. I do not know if anything is pushed to CentOS
> which says where things go either.. so it will be later in the
> build/test/rc cycle before I think things will be known for sure.
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Oh I was using the mock
https://tdawson.fedorapeople.org/epel8/other/os/Packages/ to build my own
things. The patches in his tree
https://tdawson.fedorapeople.org/epel8/other/source/Packages/ may help you
on your work.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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