On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 at 12:38, Orion Poplawski <or...@nwra.com> wrote:

> On 12/11/20 5:04 PM, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> > On 12/12/20 12:12 AM, Troy Dawson wrote:
> >> There is also a problem if a missing package has been specifically
> >> blocked by a module.  I think libuv-devel is this way.
> >
> > If that happens, wouldn't it be blocked in both scenarios
> > (module+grobisplitter+tagging and devel-only-component)? Or would
> > grobisplitter put them in an additional repo with module_hotfixes=yes?
> >
> > If that's the case, it might be possible to create a separate repo with
> > such packages only and manually tag them there. E.g. after a build I'd
> > do `koji tag epel8-buildroot-module-hotfixes foo-devel-1.6-5.el8` and
> > the epel8-buildroot-module-hotfixes repo would be available from EPEL 8
> > Koji/mock builds with module_hotfixes=yes. Yes, unlike the rest of this
> > proposal, it requires some work (on infra to set up this extra repo and
> > on packagers to remember to do the tagging, but that still sounds like
> > less work than the grobisplitter proposal for both groups).
>
> Is there any easy way to tell if a package is explicitly blocked vs just
> not being present.
>
>
I thought there was one way by looking at the modules.yaml file and parse
through the yaml for artifacts and filter.. however when I was doing that
for the EPEL-8 bringup in 2019.. it was not always accurate.


> >> We discussed this in the EPEL Steering Committee this week, and your
> >> way has alot less "mess with the server and modules" work.
> >> It would probably get us up to 75% of the missing packages.
> >>
> >> If people who have been waiting for packages want to give this a try
> >> and show what they did for others to follow, that would be great.
> >> I'll probrubly do it for some of the packages I want.  And see what
> >> type of scripts, patches, and other things are needed.
> >
> > Let me know if you have a devel package in mind and I can give it a try.
>
> Can we just jump in and try this out?  I'd like to get qpdf-devel
> available.  If so, I guess I would do:
>
> fedpkg request-repo --exception qpdf-devel
>
> right?
>
>
I don't know so I can't answer this.



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