On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 14:12 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > Maybe baby steps? Small incremental changes. Sure some features will be > missing that kopers will provide. But perhaps we could just create a > Fedora-13-devel tag in koji, push it to it's own repo or to individual > fedora-13-spot / fedora-13-mmcgrath repos. One that doesn't migrate to > updates-testing or updates. It just sits there. > > We're going to need something like this when kopers comes out anyway > right? I figure smaller steps towards that goal is better then one big > one. Toshio and I have talked about the targets of coprs and what the problems are we're trying to solve. Here are the problems: 1. I want to build these pkgs which have small patches to what's in fedora but I don't have the archs to build them on :solved by scratch builds in koji 2. I want to build these pkgs which have patches/changes to what's in fedora but I don't have the machines to build them on :solved by scratch builds in koji 3. I want to build these pkgs which have patches/changes to what's in fedora but I don't have a place to host them :provided, but not explicitly encouraged or endorsed by fedorapeople.org 4. I want to build these pkgs and they have new deps on pkgs which are not in fedora and I need to chain-build them from arbitrary :not provided by anything currently since you cannot build pkgs in koji with arbitrary deps from arbitrary repos. Item 4 is the main point that has been the big ticket item that things like Canonical's PPAs have hit. Since the other 3 had some relatively-possible solution Toshio and I started down the path of solving #4 since that was the only explicitly unsolved problem. Now - I think it would be perfectly reasonable for us to come up with a better/more official solution for #3. It's pretty simple to implement. We could setup a: http://repos.fedoraproject.org/$username/reponame/ it would be as simple as a subdir/path on the current fedorapeople (but using the repos hostname so we could move it later if needs demanded it) so - in theory we could have repos like: http://repos.fp.o/skvidal/func-future/ or http://repos.fp.o/func-group/func-future/ and extend out from there. then when item #4 is fully solved we could move this hierarchy to be used by coprs. It's a good place to start. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
