Il 24/03/22 09:12, Petr Pisar ha scritto: > V Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 05:40:28PM +0000, Mattia Verga via devel napsal(a): >> So, now that we have side-tags to perform this kind of builds, does the >> buildroot override existence still make sense? Is there any use case >> that still requires BR overrides and cannot be done with side-tags? >> > I use overrides pretty extensively when populating new EPEL. If you have > a deep dependency tree and the packages are scattered among many maintainers, > it's much faster to use an override than to block depending packages for > a week. Side tags also do not work there because every new package would reset > the testing period. And if I'm not mistaken non-proven packagers cannot edit > other's updates. And I don't count communication overhead. People would end up > mixing various side tags and crosstagging builds. > Maybe BR overrides usage should be restricted only to users with special needs (users in provenpackager or releng groups), while "normal" users should be forced to take the side-tag way? Mattia _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
