Re: fedpkg sources - downloading unused source files: opt-in/opt-out

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On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 1:13 PM Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 09:45:55PM +0300, Otto Urpelainen wrote:
> > Ondrej Nosek kirjoitti 4.5.2022 klo 18.01:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > A few months ago fedpkg introduced a change which avoids downloading source
> > > files (from dist-git) that are not used in the specfile and therefore
> > > downloading them would be wasting of resources and time.
> > > The original request was opened here [1] and implemented here [2]. The
> > > logic is part of the command "fedpkg sources" and currently can't be
> > > disabled manually. The logic parses specfile, but doesn't do a deep
> > > analysis, so it is doesn't always right.
> > >
> > > Recently we got a request for opt-in implementation of this. It means you
> > > should actively use some argument (ie. --skip-unused) to avoid downloading
> > > unused sources. The requestor points out that it broke the original
> > > functionality and it is not possible to add any extra arguments into the
> > > complicated release process (RHEL kernel).
> >
> > Author of the patch under discussion here.
> >
> > The premise was that "specfile sources" equal "sources file sources". Since
> > there is a request like this, that is apparently not always the case. From
> > that perspective, the patch is wrong and opt-in would be the correct way.
>
> I think opt-in will be useless and make the entire option pointless.
> Most maintainers won't be aware it exists.
>
> Why would someone want to opt-out of this?
>

I need to when working on ffmpeg updates, since it clobbers my
regenerated tarballs when I'm working normally. I had no idea about
this until someone pointed it out to me.




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