On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:45:23AM +0200, Tomas Tomecek wrote: > Good morning, I'd like to announce the creation of Fedora Source-git SIG: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Source-git > > Our main goal in the SIG right now is to establish a development > workflow for Fedora Linux packages using repositories with sources and > upstream history (this is what we call source-git), instead of just > distribution files with links to tarballs (dist-git). > > Please head to the SIG wiki page to learn more about our proposed MVP. > We are looking for maintainers of Fedora Linux packages who'd be > interested in being early adopters and give us feedback during the > development process. You don't need to do any coding unless you want > to :)
We might be interested in trialling it with some of the virt packages. I'm wondering about the scope of this statement from the wiki page above: "Whatever we produce here, it MUST NOT violate Fedora Packaging Guidelines (we should strive to change them if needed)." I can certainly understand the intent behind this when dealing with legally restricted content. eg don't allow impls of patented algorithms that are blocked from dist-git. In terms of scope I can reasonably audit the source for current git master or a specific git tag to ensure legal compliance. I can't reasonably audit the entire source-git history of the project back to day 1 though, to make sure the git repo has never had legally restricted content at any point in the past 20 years of its life. IOW, I'd hope that in terms of FPG compliance, we only need to consider the specific tag/branch that's being used to populate dist-git and can ignore history. This could still potentially mean that source-git is a complication for the packages where we have to re-create the tarballs after removing patented crypto. Will legal allow it to remain in source git, but require it to be purged when src-git syncs to dist-git or something like that ? Overall this does seem to imply though that if Fedora hosts src-git repos with upstream history itself, then it is potentially opening a new liability that it hasn't had before. If we're going to host src-git on a Fedora namespace on gitlab.com though, then its someone else's problem to worry about, and Fedora only needs to worry about what's synced to dist-git for the actual RPMs builds. Aside from legal, I also wonder about things like binary blobs or bundled libraries. These are relatively common to see in upstream git repos, even if they don't make it into the release tarballs that Fedora traditionally consumes. Hopefully the requirement to comply with Fedora Pakaging Guidelines will only apply to files in src-git that actually get used for Fedora builds, and not stuff that exists but is skipped/ignored ? Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
