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. 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 profile: https://keyoxide.org/michel@michel-slm.name -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 260 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20210520/4c27322c/attachment-0003.sig>