On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 at 11:24, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 at 10:19, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 02:42:05PM -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> > * non free submissions. What if someone submits non free content and we >> > build and host it? That would not be great. >> >> Can we apply the same "flag and remove" approach as currently used in >> Copr? >> >> > It can be done but it takes both database changes and rewriting histories > in certain places. The purpose of the Fedora Build System (FBS*) is to > compose a distribution in an auditable fashion so that one could see the > chain of builds, the source code, and other items and link them in a > fashion to know when someone messes with it. Messing with databases, > rewriting history, has pile on and unintended effects because it is not > what FBS was aimed to do.. and various side effects then have to be tracked > down and done. > > One of the problems we are running into is that koji is a hammer and we > keep using it to do everything from putting in screws to painting the car. > Sure we can add some layers (bodhi+mbs+pungi+..) and make the hammer more > screwdriver like or more brush like.. but in the end.. it is going to leave > dent marks in the wall and car. > > The issue here is that a good portion of what we are looking at isn't a > distribution. It may become a distribution later, but we are mainly talking > about someone wanting packageA to be usable in some way. [It doesn't mean > there is any work to make it integrated with anything else.. just that it > is usable.] > > If you want a build system which has different requirements, make or clone > a different build system for those requirements. > > > Let me rewrite that last sentence to make it less crappy ( and my apologies for sending off the crappy version first): If we want a build system which has different requirements, let us make or clone a build system for those requirements. -- Stephen J Smoogen.
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