On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 3:02 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 8:02 AM Adam Samalik <asama...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 1:57 PM Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 1:32 AM Adam Samalik <asama...@redhat.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> I thought that Arbitrary Branching (now referred to as Stream > Branching) was initially developed for Modularity only. > >>> > >>> Were there any plans to use it for standalone packages as well? > >> > >> > >> Thank you for bringing this up... I re-read the Wiki including the > Factory2 link and I'm still confused. I like the idea at a high level but I > still don't understand how to use it. > >> > >> One example is that I maintain the package OpenImageIO which has a very > disciplined upstream that's careful about not making API/ABI breaking > changes within a minor release. I would like to get branches for each minor > release that's currently supported, 1.8 for rawhide through F28, 1.8 for > F27 and 1.5 for EPEL. > >> > >> Like I said, at a high level it makes since, but I still don't > understand exactly how to do it or if the process/tools are mature enough > to actually use yet. > > > > > > The original idea was to use it for modules [1]. You would reference the > branches in your module definition [2]. > > > > There's no particular reason it couldn't be used for regular packages. > The only reason it's not done is because of convention. It's certainly > workable, but as fedpkg doesn't yet support that workflow, it's a bit > more manual. > Ah, please don't take me wrong, I'm not opposing that. Just hinting why the wiki page might look confusing. I think I saw a way to submit a traditional RPM build from a different branch by specifying the target manually. > > > -- > 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- Adam Šamalík --------------------------- Software Engineer Red Hat
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