[CentOS-devel] Proposal: Add pkg- prefix to package names in CentOS dist-git

On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 11:44 AM Brian Stinson <brian at bstinson.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, at 10:32, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > * Josh Boyer:
> >
> > >> Gitlab has a repository aliasing mechanism.  It could be a gradual
> > >> transition for existing packages.
> > >
> > > No.  This is extremely excessive.  We already have namespaces, and the
> > > list of reserved names is already known.  Of that list, there is a
> > > single one today that actually has an RPM that overlaps.  Adding
> > > content to RHEL is not a wild west process, so we can control what our
> > > SRPMs are named as they are added going forward.
> >
> > Okay, so the prefix isn't going to fly.  The “+” problem is also more
> > widespread, and the prefix does not solve that at all.
> >
> > I checked the package addition process, and it actually flows through
> > CentOS these days (“centpkg import” is used), so it should prevent the
> > recurrence of the “tree” problem.  Unlike other parts of the tooling,
> > centpkg seems to know about the “+” rewriting (to “plus”), so that's not
> > going to help us to prevent future mistakes in that area, though.
> >
> > What should we do here?  We have a couple of packages that are basically
> > impossible to maintain in the present state in CentOS Stream.
> >
> > One possible way forward could be:
> >
> > * Rename the tree package (starting with Fedora).
> > * Rename all packages with + in their names (also in Fedora).
> > * Ban + in future source package names.
> > * For every REPO, the RPM spec file must be called REPO.spec, and the
> >   source RPM name must be REPO.
> >
> > I'm not sure how good RPM is at source package renaming, though.  If the
> > repository name and the .spec file name and source package name differ
> > (due to the “+” rewriting or the dump/restore thing), we end up with
> > tooling issues again (like we had with dump/restore).  If we rename the
> > package outright, it affects the binary packages as well, and might need
> > an exception at this point.
> >
> > My worry is that people have been saying “we'll deal with these few
> > exceptions manually”, but as far as I can tell, that is just not what's
> > happening.  RPM components that should be trivially to maintain are
> > suddenly very difficult.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Florian
> >
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> We should consider renaming the tree repository in Fedora and CentOS Stream/RHEL, and leave the + packages alone. We've asked for fixes in gitlab to support the proper naming including '+' characters.
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> There are other source packages that don't match 1:1 with their dist-git repositories, so I'm not sure how much trouble a hard requirement would cause.
>

At least for pagure, it might be worth changing the slug from /tree/
to /filelist/ for 6.0 so that this isn't a problem anymore for the
"tree" package...



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