What do we think of this?

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Tuesday 27 March 2007 02:55:03 pm seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 14:47 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 March 2007 02:39:45 pm Matt Domsch wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:31:35PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > > > Here's where things could get interesting -- Can we make it easy for
> > > > third party repositories to stay informed of what dep-breaking
> > > > packages have been built and are waiting to be pushed to the
> > > > repository?  Can we make it easy for them to grab those packages and
> > > > do a rebuild that waits in the wings for our push to make the new
> > > > package live?
> > >
> > > AFAIK, the needsign repo is available for mirroring from the builders,
> > > and if it isn't available by public rsync, probably could be.
> >
> > Extras is available by http Core is not.  right now there are no plans to
> > enable it for the merged world.  though things could be built against
> > updates-testing and be ready for when it goes live.  the only problem
> > then is security fixes that need to be rushed through.
> >
> > One of the longer term goals  is to have a means to announce out what was
> > built so that Red Hat can do their own builds of rawhide for RHEL.  there
> > is no reason that this couldnt be made available to 3rd parties to
> > trigger builds for them.
>
> so let me make sure I understand this correctly.
>
> if I want to do a mock build on my local system using the latest of
> everything in all the just-built repos in koji then I can't? that seems
> to be a big negative. We should be able to export the repositories koji
> uses in mock internally to the outside world. It just needs to have an
> http server pointing to a path.
the repo does not exist in the format that needsign does in plague.   we could 
script an export and create it.  but right now we cant do that 

> If we can't then it means if someone wants to do a test build of their
> srpm before submitting and eating up bandwidth and cpu time, then they
> can't?

If they want to do a testbuild they can by doing koji build --scratch 
f7-updates <srpm>  which will upload the srpm and do a build  

-- 
Dennis Gilmore, RHCE