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 > profile: https://keyoxide.org/michel@michel-slm.name > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20210521/b2ffbcc8/attachment-0005.html>