On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> In Fedora 23, rpm has grown support for weak dependencies (Recommends: >> and Suggests: tags). However, the compose tools have not been ported to >> dnf/libsolv yet, which means these tags will have no effect at image >> compose time. >> >> This has implications for spin kickstarts: the set of packages included >> in media derived from a kickstart will be a subset of the packages you >> would see installed by passing the kickstart package/group list to dnf. >> As a result, any packages that you want to see included on the >> generated media must be either explicitly listed in the kickstart, or >> brought in with Requires: from another package. Technically this is not >> different from previous Fedora releases, but it is different from what >> you might get from using F23's dnf to compute a package list. >> >> Product and spin kickstart maintainers are advised to double-check the >> package manifests for the produced media to ensure all packages they >> want included actually are included. >> > Are the compose tools going to match DNF's behavior in package dependency > resolution in the near future? When they are ported to use DNF they will. That isn't going to be for F23 though. josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
