On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:37 PM, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. 5. Some easy way to enable/disable such repos other than messing with config files? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
