[CentOS-devel] how do we create CentOS' comps.xml

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 5:50 PM Ken Dreyer <kdreyer at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 2:12 PM Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> wrote:
> > I can explain this.
> >
> > Internally, we have a single comps file that looks almost identical to
> > the CentOS one referenced except for the branding changes already
> > mentioned.  It delineates packages between repos using
> > "variant="BaseOS" or variant="AppStream", etc.  For groups that have
> > packages split across repos, you'll see both variant statements within
> > the group definition.  When pungi runs, it will take the single comps
> > file and deconstruct it based on variant statements to produce
> > per-repository comps definitions.  That way the comps groups don't
> > include packages that are not actually in that repository.
> >
>
> Thanks Josh, this clears up a lot. I also found
> https://docs.pagure.org/pungi/comps.html and that helps me understand
> further how this process works.
>
> It sounds like CentOS engineers copy and transform an internal RHEL
> comps XML for CentOS 8 and push it to Pagure. And then when we get to
> CentOS 9 Stream, release engineers will make comps changes happen in
> CentOS' git first?
>

Engineering in general, but yes.  For those interested before Stream 9 is
available, the eln comps file in the fedora-comps repo is tracking things
as they are developing.

josh
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