Hi all,

A few months ago fedpkg introduced a change which avoids downloading source files (from dist-git) that are not used in the specfile and therefore downloading them would be wasting of resources and time.

The original request was opened here [1] and implemented here [2]. The logic is part of the command "fedpkg sources" and currently can't be disabled manually. The logic parses specfile, but doesn't do a deep analysis, so it is doesn't always right.

Recently we got a request for opt-in implementation of this. It means you should actively use some argument (ie. --skip-unused) to avoid downloading unused sources. The requestor points out that it broke the original functionality and it is not possible to add any extra arguments into the complicated release process (RHEL kernel).

On the other hand, opt-out (--download-unused) has (I think) a significantly higher impact on saving resources (time and network capacity). Of course, it doesn't have to be implemented as an extra argument, there might be a different (maybe not so clean) solution for such projects.

What do you think about it?

I added into a loop (bcc) names who already were involved in this in a past (on the Fedora devel mailing list)

Thanks, Ondrej

[1] https://pagure.io/rpkg/issue/559

[2] https://pagure.io/rpkg/pull-request/564

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