On 05/05/2021 17:21, Davide Cavalca via CentOS-devel wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-05-05 at 13:59 +0200, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>> 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
>
> I can think of one downside of this: it would result in packages with
> the same ENVR, but different signatures and checksums. I know this
> would be a problem for FB (due to how some of our internal tooling
> works), but I'm not sure what other side effects it could bring. If we
> go down this path, would it be possible to *not* resign the packages,
> and just leave them signed with the EPEL key?
>
Well, pulling/rsync EPEL signed pkgs and import in cbs is "easy" but
yeah, the current signing pipeline would just (as it was designed for
that particular case) sign pkgs in a tags with the SIG gpg key, and not
have "exceptions"
So if that's considered an issue to have epel pkgs signed again with SIG
gpg key in *their* repositories, we should revisit the original RFE.
The other solution is then : use EPEL as external repo in koji so that
pkgs depending on (Build)Requires: at build time would find pkgs and so
build .. but that would mean :
- such SIG would probably have a dep on epel-release if other EPEL pkgs
are needed at runtime (probably the case if it was needed also at buildtime)
- no way for SIG to stick to a particular ENVR (and if they want to, -
thinking about RDO/openstack cloud sig- they'd probably rebuild epel
pkgs in their tags, like they are doing for some years now ...)
So we have two solutions and the easiest/fastest one is probably just to
import pkgs in koji and SIG can just tag-build what they want/need
(including cherry-picking ENVR) but with the downside effect of pkg
signed with a different gpg key (and so my original question to Fedora :
is that allowed ?)
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