On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 04:38:04PM +0200, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote: > > > > > > 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. OK, cool, thanks for dispeling my doubts. -- 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
