-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/30/2014 03:54 PM, James Antill wrote: > On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 14:59 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > >> Additionally, I am working on a proposal[1] for per-product >> configs in > > I think you can go with something very close to this design _if_ > you always have a product. This would mean that even a minimal > Fedora install would need a system-release-minimal, or whatever. > Then all the product subpackages can use the "least requires wins" > method of compare providers to make it work (the above is said > without any testing). You can keep all the conflicts, but they are > more like asserts than something used to help pick the correct > subpackage, currently. > So for F21 at least, we may have to go with "what you start with is what you're stuck with" as an approach and solve it better in the future. >> the Fedora 21 timeframe which is dependent on the above. It >> should be noted that this is an interim solution only; in Fedora >> 22 we will be able to vastly simplify this situation with the >> weak dependency support in RPM 4.12. (I was looking for a link >> detailing all of these weak deps, but I cannot find one. If you >> know of such a document, please reply and add it). > > I don't see how weak deps. will solve any of your problems. If dnf > +rpmbuild+createrepo/etc also has support for the planned _rich_ > deps. then you should be able to do something like: > > Require: config-server if system-release-server (is > installed) Require: config-workstation if > system-release-workstation (is installed) > > ...which is what you are trying to express. Also DNF should be > better able to handle the conflicts with backtracking too, so > there's that. > Right, I said "weak" when I mean "rich", which is extremely embarassing :) But yeah, that's pretty much what we want there and if we can push hard for that in Fedora 22, I think that's a major win. >> [1] >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Per-Product_Configuration_Packaging_Draft > >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlOxwScACgkQeiVVYja6o6P83ACfS/MI1TYBME354LW+Zb08FIfo M94AnAiSms1F+T55/JvUu0x2nJyhGAaP =/8zd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
