On 09/15/2015 07:26 AM, Colin Walters wrote:
'On Mon, Sep 14, 2015, at 05:12 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
I'm just one person with an opinion, it would be best if everybody
with a stake took part in the ring definitions. Creating additional
rings that address communities where self-hosting is a foreign concept
may be useful and desirable. Making Fedora a first class OS for
languages where rpm packaging doesn't make sense is great!
One thing I find strange is that while by some measurements
the rings effort would be a major change, by others it seems to
be a minor tweak of what exists today.
I haven't seen for example any evaluation or discussion of
the apparent assumption that Ring 0 will be binary RPM packages,
maintained how they always have been.
I haven't seen much discussion of "should ring 0 be RPMs".
We talked about a related question at flock: Should packages built as
COPRs be allowed into low level rings? The answer from RCM was no,
due to trust and stability issues. I think we're assuming ring 0 is
RPMs because we don't have a second package format that we deeply
understand and think is suitable.
To give a random contrast, look at OpenEmbedded:
http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Main_Page
As far as being a flexible base layer that is *explicitly* not
itself a Product, they do this *really* well.
One thing I like beyond the technology is how they have one
git repository for the core, then explicit "layers" which are also
git repositories. These aggregate maintenance of *multiple*
components and create a very *collaborative* model. This is not
generally true in the "big bag of packages" model since the
core/extras merge.
One small thing we could do to try to emulate this for ring0
would be to put all of the spec files for Ring 0 into one git
repository for example. And have actual peer review
for patches, just like one sees on:
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-September/thread.html
It's certainly an argument for ring 0 being the minimal install ;-)
How do you deliver updates?
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