On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 03:04:26PM -0500, Robbie Harwood wrote: > >> As my team has found out within Red Hat, this repo split has been a > >> large PITA. Because RHEL also won't self-host and many sub-packages > >> are missing from released bits that are otherwise available in e.g., > >> BUILDROOT, building our bits in COPR for QE to test has been an > >> impossible battle. After close to a year, this use case still hasn't > >> been enabled internally. > > But that's not what's being proposed. > Isn't it? Some packages go in main, and others go in light (or whatever > it'd be called)? Right, it is not. there's no "many sub-packages are missing from released bits that are otherwise available". In fact, going back to the beginning, making such packages _available_ is exactly the intention. So it's the opposite. > > We've had different repos in Fedora for years -- the main repo, plus > > updates, plus updates-testing. And we have the separate modularity one > > now. Fedora is going to continue to self-host, and doesn't have > > whatever business reason RHEL has for not shipping the buildroot. > I think that conflates uses of the word "different". > > The package sets between main/updates/updates-testing are not > meaningfully different: almost all packages in updates/updates-testing > already have a version in main. That is, you would have a complete > system with pretty much every package available just by setting up main. Okay, fair enough. But still, it's not like "there's more than one repo" is suddenly new science. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ 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
