On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 3:31 AM Alfredo Moralejo Alonso <amoralej at redhat.com> wrote: > > > > 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. >> Has someone made a feature request to DNF for this on Red Hat Bugzilla? -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!