On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 14:03 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Monday 10 July 2006 12:00, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > Can you shed some light on "plague vs. brew" and why Core and Extras > > buildsys and infrastructure divert in this area? > > Brew is a management layer over Mock, like Plague is. Brew was written with a > package database backend in mind, and development on it started before Plague > work began, but we didn't get to the point of actually using it until very > recently. It is interesting now that there is work being considered to add a > package database to Plague. Interesting indeed. > > Brew handles some things Red Hat needs for RHEL, much more strict tracking of > build root contents for package builds, finer grained collection inheritince, > collection locking (does plague do this?), an xml-rpc API to the package > database, etc... Not all of these things are needed for Fedora, but some are > pretty nice. There is some discussion about opensourcing Brew, the layers > above mock. I believe this would be very good to do. Having extra stuff that Fedora doesn't really need isn't really a problem from my point of view. If we could get Core and Extras using the same buildsystem, it would be a Good Thing (tm). josh -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
