On 11/3/19 12:47 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 08:06:07AM -0700, Troy Dawson wrote:
> For KDE, I built all the packages in epel8-playground. At the time,
> it seemed like the right thing to do. (Whether it was or not is
> another discussion). I also built several packages in playground that
> were not part of KDE, but were build and runtime dependencies.
>
> Those non-KDE packages, I have been trying to get built on regular
> epel8 by their normal maintainers. Or building myself if the normal
> maintainer don't want to support epel8.
>
> Question: What do I do about those package currently in -playground,
> that just got built in regular epel8?
> The versions may, or may not, be the same.
>
> A related question, but not necessarily for this set of packages.
> What is our plan in a year or two, if a package clearly is maintained
> in epel8, but abandoned in epel8-playground?
Right, so this is what Kanarip was talking about the other day on IRC.
Consider the case:
- I have foo-1.0-1 in epel8 and epel8-playground
- I want to play with foo-2.0 in playground, so I tweak packages.cfg and
build it in playground.
- Later I decide its stable so I build foo-2.0-1 in epel8.
- A update comes out to 2.1, so I build foo-2.1-1 in epel8, but I didn't
put the packages.cfg back and the version in epel8-playground is now
foo-2.0-1 still.
- I later try and build bar-2.0 in epel8-playground, and it builds
against foo-2.0-1 instead of foo-2.1
I guess the expectation is that the maintainer should put the
packages.cfg back in place when merging back to epel8, but I could see
this getting forgotten.
So, perhaps the best way forward here is some reporting?
ie, check upgrade path between all epel8 and epel8-playground packages.
The playgound ones should always upgrade the epel8 one.
kevin
I guess I don't see why anyone needs to muck with packages.cfg. If you
want to build something for epel8-playground, just build it from the
epel8-playground branch.
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