On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 2:11 PM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 22. 01. 24 20:04, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 1:55 PM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> > >> On 22. 01. 24 19:07, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > >>> I am unaware of any remaining use cases for buildroot overrides that > >>> are not covered by side tags. If you know of any, please speak up. > >> > >> Every time somebody asks this, I say: Pull Requests CI > >> > >> I opened https://pagure.io/fedora-ci/general/issue/240 almost 3 years ago. > >> > >> It works in CentOS Stream, but not in Fedora. > >> > >> Without that, I sometimes need to create a buildroot override to be able to > >> test the the second package change before merging it. > >> > > > > This sounds a lot more like a workaround than a use-case, but it's > > good to know about. So thank you. > > Yes, it is. > > > Unfortunately, I feel like that workaround is dangerous, since it is > > putting untested code into the buildroot. > > In this case the PR-based CI has already passed for the build I add as a > buidlroot override. > > > I would like to see that get > > fixed properly with support for the side tags. > > I would like that very much. However, it seems it has not been a priority. > > > In the meantime, if we > > otherwise disabled free-access buildroot overrides, this would > > definitely be grounds for granting an exception. > > How would that work? Would I ask FESCo every time I need to do it?
If it's something that a specific packager has justifiable cause to do on a regular basis, I think we could potentially grant them that privilege (at least until we get a proper solution in place). Or do you think this is the sort of thing where the number of people needing this access would be prohibitively high? -- _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
