On 10. 02. 21 20:24, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
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> On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 14:19, Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@redhat.com
> <mailto:mhroncok@redhat.com>> wrote:
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> On 10. 02. 21 19:53, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > fedpkg-minimal
> > epel-release
> > epel-rpm-macros
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> Those make perfect sense to me.
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> > fedpkg
> > koji
> > bodhi
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> But I don't understand why those are required. What am I missing?
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> A lot of EPEL developers do their development on an EL system and use the base
> tools to do so. That needs fedpkg to be on that system to talk to koji/bodhi and
> a host of other items. In order to get fedpkg to do that you end up needing
> parts of koji and bodhi because of library needs. That requires the yak train.
Oh, so this is only needed to make EPEL "self hosting" in a sense. So packagers
can contribute to EPEL 9 from an EL 9 system.
I agree that this is a valuable goal, but should this be an essential part of
the initial "bootstrap"?
Well it depends on what bootstrap means. Is it 'what is needed to have a package set to call it EPEL' or 'what are the minimal set of packages needed for an EPEL packager to be able to work'
In the past it was enough to get enough of the package set together that others can build and add packages to the distro. Since a LOT of packages use fedpkg local etc for their testing/porting.. having fedpkg fully functional was a requirement. However that does mean extra work for things like this which no one is working on and no one is paying anyone to work on. So maybe the group should say it is a requirement that development is done in Fedora instead.
I'm asking because I know that yak train has a lot of packages, including some
deprecated that I maintain in Fedora. So I'd rather see a real maintainer
deciding to package e.g. python-nose or python-mock for EPEL 9, than a SIG
member who is more likely to import/build it once and move on.
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