Am 18.10.19 um 18:48 schrieb Jim Perrin: > > On 10/17/19 3:39 PM, Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel wrote: >> Just wondering; are the output files of the koji system no more >> accessible? I remember asking for some devel packages >> >> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2019-May/017417.html >> >> and at that time I could download the rpm files. Why this >> "administrative rules" now? Any reasons for that? >> >> And in general; a lot of devel packages are missing. Whats the policy >> for that? Can we see these rpms in the PowerTools or Extras repos? > > > A couple reasons for this. Just because things build doesn't mean > they're ready. We sometimes need to iterate builds, and having people > pulling packages direct from the build system makes supporting this > challenging, especially if they have a matching NVR build that's not the > right one. The packages may or may not be signed yet, depending on when > someone tries to pull from koji. We'd prefer people wait for the actual > release when we're sure everything is right. Lastly, the builders aren't > on mirrored systems, so there's a bandwidth cost from people attempting > to pull directly. The administrative block solves all 3 of these issues. Thanks to clarify this ... albeit I wonder about the outlined impact. > As for shipping the devel packages: I believe bstinson has a plan for > that as a separate repo in the future, but this won't work for -devel > packages which belong to modules and are filtered as part of that > module's metadata. I saw later that some people on the list had already asked about it. So, this are great news! Thanks, Leon