On 13/02/2019 09:48, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 4:34 AM Tom Hughes <tom(a)compton.nu>
wrote:
>
> On 13/02/2019 09:11, Neal Gompa wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 4:09 AM Tom Hughes <tom(a)compton.nu> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think that second consequence is entirely true.
>>>
>>> As I understand the the default module stream remains available
>>> in the main repo and hence would be installable with things that
>>> don't understand modules. There would be no ability to switch to
>>> an alternate stream with other tools though.
>>
>> That's not true. If the modulemd isn't processed, all the RPMs are
>> evaluated and the repo looks like a completely conflicting pile of
>> nonsense. This is what makes PackageKit and dnfdragora scream. Though
>> they don't crash on it anymore, which is a good thing. :)
>
> Not sure I follow... I don't see anything called modulemd in
> the repodata and, for example, pkcon seems to be happy to install
> ant on my rawhide vm.
>
> As I understand it modulemd is something which goes in a distgit
> repo to control how modules are built?
The fedora-modular repo has a modules.yaml.gz appended to it that is
used for shipping module information for package managers to process
for filtering rules.
Ahh I have the modular repo disabled, so that's all fine then ;-)
Tom
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