Re: Buildroot-only modules
On 08/29/2018 11:23 AM, Adam Samalik wrote:
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 1:23 AM Mikolaj Izdebski
<mizdebsk(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> Some modules are built in MBS/Koji but are never released to users.
> Currently such modules can only be used as build dependencies of other
> modules. In future, if solution like "ursa-major" [1] is implemented,
> such modules could also be used as build dependencies for non-modular
> packages.
>
> An example of buildroot-only module is javapackages-tools. This
> module is used as build dependency for 4 modules, but it is not
> included in any compose and it's not shipped to users.
>
> Should such modules be considered as allowed in Fedora? I am not
> aware of any policy that would disallow them, but I would rather ask
> in advance and not be surprised if one day I find out that I have to
> ship such modules to users and support them.
>
This sounds absolutely fine to me.
Thanks Kevin and Adam for your feedback.
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Mikolaj Izdebski
Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
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