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

Mon May 10 16:15:39 UTC 2021
Patrick Riehecky <riehecky at fnal.gov>

On Mon, 2021-05-10 at 11:08 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 5/7/21 8:15 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 08:07:12AM +0200, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> > > 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  ?)
> > 
> > I don't *think* that would be a problem. It's too bad RPMs can't
> > have
> > multiple signatures.
> > 
> > But wouldn't cherry-picking ENVR cause problems if a system has
> > EPEL
> > enabled?
> > 
> 
> I personally think the best option is just to use the EPEL repos as
> external repos and to require epel-release in repos where you require
> epel package to be installed.
> 
> That way they remain totally independent and we don't have multiple
> copies of the same rpms and ENVRs with different signatures / keys.

This is probably the only time I miss the RPMv3 ability to have
multiple signatures on a single RPM.

Pat