On 12/16/10 1:20 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 12:28 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: >> On 12/16/10 12:22 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: >>> An alternative approach would be to mirror the semantics of tag >>> inheritance by having builds use multiple yum repositories, possibly >>> with priorities, instead of explicitly computing the resulting repodata >>> for every tag. Would that be feasible? >>> >> >> Again it would take code, and quite a bit of logic to figure out what >> packages are blocked in various tags to make sure the repo config files >> used exclude the right packages, etc... > > How about shipping the block list in the repository metadata and > modifying yum-plugin-priorities to read it and insert the blocks into > the priority dictionary just like packages? I think that would give the > right semantics. > > (I'm not prepared to contribute now. I'm just having fun speculating > and hoping that if we reach a solution that is easy enough to be > worthwhile, someone will implement it. Is there a better list for this > discussion?) > Any of these solutions is going to take code, and coordination with Koji upstream. Won't really know which path is best until they are tried. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
