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