[CentOS-devel] CBS and SIGs consuming CentOS 8 / Stream

[Matthias Runge]

On 02/10/2019 17:07, Thomas Oulevey wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 

> 
> 2/ CentOS 8 buildroot
> 
> When 1/ is done we can create an C8 buildroot without enabling the 
> Appstream repo.
> 
> Due to the nature of Appstream, and how koji uses mergerepo 
> (--koji)/updaterepo/mock, more work is needed to get a working buildroot.
> 
> I don't fully understand the underlying issue so comments are very 
> welcome to enlighten us !
> 
> One of the solution found by Fedora team is to split Appstream per 
> repository and enable only the one needed in a specific buildroot [3].
> 
> We are evaluating the tools. And see if we can use koji external-repo or 
> tag inheritance to achieve it (which is mbox solution [4])
> 
> However for a community build service, we don't know exactly what people 
> will build and what Appstream packages will be needed in each buildroot 
> (we have 290 targets at this time for C7). So we still need time and new 
> ideas :-)
> 
> * Status: Investigating possible solutions.
> 

Hi,

since I keep hearing interest of building SIG packages for CentOS 8, is
there an update on this topic?

Matthias