On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 4:35 PM Tomasz Torcz <tomek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 04:03:46PM +0200, Petr Pisar wrote: > > In non-modular Fedora all packages that we have in Fedora build system (Koji) > > are tagged into Fedora repositories and made available to all users on their > > computers for any purpose. That implies that all packages in Fedora build system > > must be fully supported including addressing all security issues. > > > > In modular Fedora that's (effectively) not true. Packages that only exist > > for the sake of building other packages (i.e. build-only dependencies) can be > > retained in the Fedora build system and never left it. That means those > > packages are never made available to Fedora users and thus a service level for > > them is significantly lower. E.g. no security fixes, not bug fixes, no > > integration, not tests, no API/ABI stability. The only requirement is that > > they can be built and used for building other packages. > > > So, if user wants to locally rebuild the package, they won't be able to > do it? Because BuildRequired packages won't be available? Modules can be built locally with "fedpkg module-build-local", which downloads required dependencies from Koji and installs them in mock chroot. These packages are not installed directly (outsides of chroot) on users systems. > > > -- > Tomasz Torcz “Funeral in the morning, IDE hacking > tomek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx in the afternoon and evening.” - Alan Cox > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
