On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 19:08, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 18:54, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 5:16 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> >> >>> 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? >> >> I mean lots of modules, including pytest and python-setuptools_scm. It >> also lacks doxygen. >> >> > Yeah it became clearer in your email I got after I sent this that you had > dropped the explanation of what you meant. > > >> > 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). >> >> 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/ >> . >> >> 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. >> > > 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. > > > 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20190509/9fe9cfd6/attachment-0008.html>