Re: [EPEL-devel] Re: Documentation for EPEL modules?

[Antonio Trande]

On 15/05/20 14:57, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>  On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 7:57 AM Petr Pisar <ppisar(a)redhat.com&gt;
> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 06:30:04AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 6:15 AM Petr Pisar <ppisar(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:42:15PM +0200, Antonio Trande wrote:
> >>>> Shortly (Martin is in Cc to confirm):
> >>>>
> >>>> 1) Make a module:
> >>>>
> >>>> $ fedpkg clone cmake3
> >>>> $ fedpkg request-repo --namespace modules --exception cmake3-latest
> >>>> $ fedpkg request-branch --namespace modules --repo cmake3-latest epel8
> >>>>
> >>> This will request for creating "cmake3-latest" module and
> "cmake3-latest"
> >>> repository and "epel8" stream and "epel8" branch. I
> don't know if you
> >>> really
> >>> want to create "cmake3-latest:epel8" module stream.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Since this is a module, is there any point in using the cmake3 namespace
> >> over just cmake?
> >>
> > I cannot see any point. Maybe if there were cmake-2 or cmake-4 incompatible to
> > cmake-3 but installable in parallel, then it would make sense. (Like Python.)
> > Because you cannot install more streams of the same module at the same time.
> > Otherwise I would also go with plain "cmake" module name.
>  
>  
>  It turns out, cmake already has a presence[1] in the modules namespace
>  of dist-git. It is a relic of the Modularity 1.0 effort, but it's
>  already there and that will make this easier. 
Petr, can you take care of this module for epel8, too?

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