Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

[Jesse Keating]

On 12/16/10 1:20 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 12:28 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On 12/16/10 12:22 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
>>> An alternative approach would be to mirror the semantics of tag
>>> inheritance by having builds use multiple yum repositories, possibly
>>> with priorities, instead of explicitly computing the resulting repodata
>>> for every tag.  Would that be feasible?
>>>
>>
>> Again it would take code, and quite a bit of logic to figure out what
>> packages are blocked in various tags to make sure the repo config files
>> used exclude the right packages, etc...
> 
> How about shipping the block list in the repository metadata and
> modifying yum-plugin-priorities to read it and insert the blocks into
> the priority dictionary just like packages?  I think that would give the
> right semantics.
> 
> (I'm not prepared to contribute now.  I'm just having fun speculating
> and hoping that if we reach a solution that is easy enough to be
> worthwhile, someone will implement it.  Is there a better list for this
> discussion?)
> 

Any of these solutions is going to take code, and coordination with Koji
upstream.  Won't really know which path is best until they are tried.

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