On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 7:15 AM Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Adam Samalik wrote: > > So, I'd like to discuss the libgit issue [1] [2] we're experiencing. With > > a help of a few people, I've put together this post to get us on common > > ground: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/modularity-vs-libgit/ > > > > There are few ideas about solving the issue right now. But we might be > > able to think about better ways to deal with similar issues long-term. > > Let's do this! > > > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1717117 > > [2] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2146#comment-575852 > > As I had posted in a blog comment: > > This is exactly the dependency hell (different packages/modules depending on > incompatible versions of the same module) that I had been warning about ever > since modularity has first been discussed in Fedora. I pointed out from day > one that this is a showstopper that makes modularity entirely impractical > and unsupportable. My concerns were dismissed or ignored. Now you are seeing > exactly the situation that I had been warning about from day one. > > Kevin Kofler As best I can tell, most of the dependency nightmares in Fedora and RHEL 8 can be resolved, *so far*, by disabling the insistence on "best" matching in mock. I ran into the modular component dependency mismatches, hard, when backporting Samba 4.10.4 to RHEL 8. I'm not sure how broken this is going to be for actually deploying RPMs. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
