[CentOS-devel] Enabling PowerTools by default? (and proof-of-concept alternative)

On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 2:58 AM Michel Alexandre Salim <
michel at michel-slm.name> wrote:

> On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 22:17 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 9:32 PM Michel Alexandre Salim
> > <michel at michel-slm.name> wrote:
> > >
> > > At the Hyperscale SIG, one of the repos we ship (centos-release-
> > > hyperscale-hotfixes, which we use to override modular content we
> > > need
> > > to fix as MBS is not available to SIGs) depends on EPEL (because
> > > the
> > > packages there, for example libvirt, needs dependencies in EPEL).
> > >
> > > EPEL's Quickstart recommends enabling codeready-builder on RHEL8,
> > > and
> > > the corresponding powertools repo on CentOS 8:
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#Quickstart
> > >
> > > Could we possibly just enable powertools by default? CRB is on by
> > > default in RHEL8 UBI containers (but weirdly not in the related
> > > CentOS
> > > Stream containers!).
> >
> > Good luck with that. Disabling Powertools by default is a RHEL
> > upstream behavior. The segregation of these tools and the disabling
> > of
> > them by default is one of the aspects of RHEL 8 and CentOs 8 that
> > profoundly irritate me, they've so far served no useful purpose and
> > only caused confusion. They do reduce the metadata download
> > requirements somewhat for ordinary yum updates, but that's a distinct
> > issue.
> >
> > Enabling it by default is available to you as a local configuration
> > option: as you expand a network and go to system management tools
> > like
> > ansible rather than the expensive to set up and painful to manage RHN
> > or spacewalk system, you may wish to automate its activate it by
> > default or write '--enablerepo=PowerTools'' into your dnf
> > installation
> > scripts.
> >
> Yeah, we're exploring that option since we'll soon have Hyperscale
> instalation media anyway.
>
> My pipe dream (doable, but I probably want to wait for the DNF ->
> microdnf rewrite dust to settle) is to be able to declare dependencies
> between repos.
>
>
+1 that'd be a nice feature


> e.g.
>
> epel-release recommends (repo(PowerTools) if centos-stream-repos)
> => this signals to DNF that, hey, when epel-release is installed, flip
> PowerTools on, and if likewise PowerTools recommends another repo, it
> gets transitively enabled as well.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Michel Alexandre Salim
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