On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:56:47 +0200 > Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> My suspicion at this point is that the past FPC/Fesco guidelines wee >> wrong, and the present tooling restriction is not just about >> rich/Boolean dependencies, but also about weak dependencies. > > Could be. >> >> Zero support for weak dependencies would actually be okay, sort of. >> The problem is that something treats the Recommends: as a Requires:, >> like yum does (bug 1360781). > > Yeah, so we have 2 paths here: > > 1. pungi does the rawhide and branched composes. These are running on > Fedora instances. I think it also uses createrepo_c. These composes do > have the rich/weak/etc deps. > > 2. bodhi does the updates / updates-testing repos. Currently this is > running on a rhel7 instance. It uses mash and mash uses createrepo > which uses yum. In this case the rich deps actually break the compose > and it won't work with them in the updates set, and weak deps are > likely treated the way yum would since createrepo uses yum. > I remember writing a patch for Mash that enabled createrepo_c support. [1] Maybe it's time to cleanup that patch, get it tested, and move it forward. [1] https://pagure.io/fork/parasense/mash/c/80d55f0b15345d2f8893b303731a144e6be402dc?branch=master > One short term thing we can try out is moving the bodhi instance to > Fedora24 and see if the newer rpm can handle things better. I'm not > sure if this will work fully, but we can give it a try and see. > > If that fails we could possibly wait for the > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/KojiSignedRepos > change to finally land, as those will be generated on Fedora builders. > > It's unclear to me if we need just a newer rpm or need to switch away > from createrepo. If some folks wanted to do some testing that would be > great. ;) Just make a repo of packages with weak/rich/whatever deps and > build it on rhel7 and fedora24 and see if the correct metadata is > there and then again with createrepo_c. > > kevin > > > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- -Jon Disnard -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
