On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 03:04:26PM -0500, Robbie Harwood wrote:
> >> As my team has found out within Red Hat, this repo split has been a
> >> large PITA. Because RHEL also won't self-host and many sub-packages
> >> are missing from released bits that are otherwise available in e.g.,
> >> BUILDROOT, building our bits in COPR for QE to test has been an
> >> impossible battle. After close to a year, this use case still hasn't
> >> been enabled internally.
> > But that's not what's being proposed.
> Isn't it?  Some packages go in main, and others go in light (or whatever
> it'd be called)?

Right, it is not. there's no "many sub-packages are missing from released
bits that are otherwise available". In fact, going back to the beginning,
making such packages _available_ is exactly the intention. So it's the
opposite.


> > We've had different repos in Fedora for years -- the main repo, plus
> > updates, plus updates-testing. And we have the separate modularity one
> > now. Fedora is going to continue to self-host, and doesn't have
> > whatever business reason RHEL has for not shipping the buildroot.
> I think that conflates uses of the word "different".
> 
> The package sets between main/updates/updates-testing are not
> meaningfully different: almost all packages in updates/updates-testing
> already have a version in main.  That is, you would have a complete
> system with pretty much every package available just by setting up main.

Okay, fair enough. But still, it's not like "there's more than one repo" is
suddenly new science.



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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader
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