[CentOS-devel] Making EPEL available in CBS for SIG builds

On 05/05/2021 14:04, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 7:59 AM Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 29/04/2021 23:07, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>> Yeah, I think this plan sounds fine. It would require making a import
>>> script, that imports as things build in epel, but that should be
>>> do-able.
>>>
>>> kevin
>>>
>>
>> I started to rsync/pull epel7/8 pkgs for x86_64,aarch64,ppc64le on a
>> temporary place and we can start testing importing pkgs.
>>
>> *but* it's where it needs probably a little bit of clarification : while
>> initial request was to just have access to EPEL pkgs to satisfy
>> Requires: and/or BuildRequires: I'm wondering about a redistribution
>> policy (if any) for pkgs built on fedora infra and that SIGs would be
>> able to just redistribute if they tag such pkg in their own tag (mostly
>> for -{testing,release}).
>>
>> Each pkg tag for -release would go out on mirror CDN, but signed with
>> SIG gpg key
>>
>> Is that the workflow that people wanted to see ? It's true that it would
>> be easy to consume, and even cherry-pick which ENVR of a pkg to have in
>> a repo (so not be forced to upgrade to a newer epel pkg).
>>
>> If so, can we have +1 from Fedora infra/Fesco about just importing epel
>> pkgs in our koji (to not have to rebuild everything) and so also ship
>> pkgs out (but signed again with SIG gpg pub key for repoclosure in their
>> own repo)
>>
>> Searching for feedback to make progress on this request and not let it
>> fall in a hole like last time :)
>>
> 
> I would probably suggest instead that we make release packages depend
> on epel-release. The package is already shipped in CentOS, so we can
> have SIG release packages also depend on it. For example, Davide and I
> are prepared already to make Hyperscale's SIG release package depend
> on epel-release.
> 
> 

That would probably work for hyperscale SIG, if you just rely on
epel-release to have all Requires: pkgs available at client side ..
That doesn't solve the other request about SIGs just willing to import
one (or a few) pkg[s] to a specific version for their own SIG and still
redistribute it , instead of just rebuilding it (like they do now) .. so
original question still apply : can Fesco/Fedora allow this ? :)

PS : due to previous infra policy, myself I had to spend time rebuilding
pkgs from epel7/8 to have these available for infra tags , while for a
majority of the cases, just tagging an existing epel build would be
enough and so win of time ..

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