Re: F37 side tag after branching point
On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 at 04:56, Maxwell G <gotmax(a)e.email> wrote:
On Tuesday, August 23, 2022 1:16:00 PM CDT Iñaki Ucar wrote:
> We have a new R version sitting on a side tag (f37-build-side-55653)
> for a few weeks now, where packages are being rebuilt as time permits.
Can this perhaps be handled differently next time? I admit that I'm not
familiar with the R ecosystem, so the answer may be no. Side tags are not
meant to be open for this long. So far, this R rebuild has caused a lot of
problems (see "The R stack in Rawhide is on fire"). What are the issues that
prevent the rebuild from happening all at once?
Time and provenpackager hands. The lack of them, to be precise.
Can it be staged in COPR to
make sure nothing will break? Can the packages be built all at once with a
script?
Sure, but this is additional work that, again, requires time. See above.
We are in the process of creating a SIG, a FAS group (already done),
and adding commit access to this group to all the R software, so that
more time and more hands can be invested in the future. But yet again,
this requires time, and people were a bit overloaded already. So it is
what it is for now.
> Unfortunately, F37 is not rawhide anymore, so the question is
whether
> this side tag could be safely merged both in F37 and rawhide when it
> is ready.
I'll defer to the releng folks, but I think you should be able to merge the
sidetag normally through the Bodhi interface, though it will be for f37 and
not rawhide. You'll have to rebuild everything in rawhide.
We expected that much for F37, we just hoped that the latter could be avoided.
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Iñaki Úcar