On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 2:59 PM Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 01:28:06PM +0100, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
> > That doesn't help until there is Ursa Major or some alternative deployed.
> >
> > The reason for that is that we would need to maintain 2 copies of
> > bash, one for users and one for buildroot. I do that for libgit2 and
> > it is painful.
>
> Okay, yeah. But modules can override base, right? So what if 4 is left as
> the default in F30 and a module for 5 added, and then in F31 hopefully there
> will be ursa major¹ in place.

Only on the user' systems, not in the buildroot. At least at this moment.

> But wait also: can't the module just refer to the release-branch (base)
> dist-git? Why maintain two copies?

Well, they can. But someone needs to build it twice: once using fedpkg
build and once using fedpkg module-build from the different repo
(which always requires at least empty commit).

>
> [1] a funny name for "allowing modules in buildroot"²
>
> [2] hey, what happened to sgallagh's "hybrid" proposal where output from
>     modules could just be *tagged into* base? That seemed perfect for cases
>     like this.

Well, it is called UM which is stuck in the FESCo loop.

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