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

On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 3:31 AM Alfredo Moralejo Alonso
<amoralej at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 2:58 AM Michel Alexandre Salim <michel at michel-slm.name> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> > > 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.
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>> 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.
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> +1 that'd be a nice feature
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>> e.g.
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>> 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.
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Has someone made a feature request to DNF for this on Red Hat Bugzilla?




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