Re: Highlights from the latest Copr release

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On Thursday, February 6, 2020 8:42:56 AM MST Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> recently (on Feb 06, 2020) a new Copr release landed production.  Here is
> the list of visible changes:
> 
> - Users now can build packages against explicitly enabled modules.  Go to
>   `Project -> Settings -> Build Options -> [Edit] button (near _enabled_
>   chroot) -> Enable module: textarea`.  Note that fedora modular
>   repositories do not behave entirely good in mock (and copr) so we had to
>   disable before by default.  So to actually bring the modules into copr,
>   you need to also configure the "external repositories" textarea for the
>   fedora-modular repo.
> 
> - Module builds were historically done only against Fedora dist-git.  Now
>   the `copr-cli build-module` command was enhanced to accept `--distgit`
>   option which allows users to specify which dist-git instance to build
>   the module against.  For now we have only the "fedora" distgit
>   configured.  If you have ideas what external dist-git we should add to
>   our configuration, let us know.
> 
> - The EOL chroot policy scripts responsible for notifying users about
>   upcoming removals were fixed, users should now always be notified - and
>   if for some reason they are not, the EOL chroot will not be removed.
> 
> - Several fixes were done in copr-rpmbuild so the builds should be more
>   reliable, especially when the builder VM is heavily re-used for many
>   builds.
> 
> - News from yesterday - @msuchy enabled CDN for copr backend repositories.
>   You, or your users, likely want to re-enable the copr repositories
>   (dnf copr enable <owner/project>).
> 
> Happy building!
> Pavel

It looks like this is mostly module related stuff, which is absolutely useless 
for most packagers.. I hope it's good for RHEL at least, but it seems to be 
more of a nightmare there (for sysadmins, rather than packagers).

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr.
Splentity

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