coprs and personal repos: [Was: Re: Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?]

[drago01]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:37 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 14:12 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
>
>> Maybe baby steps?  Small incremental changes.  Sure some features will be
>> missing that kopers will provide.  But perhaps we could just create a
>> Fedora-13-devel tag in koji, push it to it's own repo or to individual
>> fedora-13-spot / fedora-13-mmcgrath repos.  One that doesn't migrate to
>> updates-testing or updates.  It just sits there.
>
>
>>
>> We're going to need something like this when kopers comes out anyway
>> right?  I figure smaller steps towards that goal is better then one big
>> one.
>
> Toshio and I have talked about the targets of coprs and what the
> problems are we're trying to solve. Here are the problems:
>
> 1. I want to build these pkgs which have small patches to what's in
> fedora but I don't have the archs to build them on
>   :solved by scratch builds in koji
>
> 2. I want to build these pkgs which have patches/changes to what's in
> fedora but I don't have the machines to build them on
>   :solved by scratch builds in koji
>
> 3. I want to build these pkgs which have patches/changes to what's in
> fedora but I don't have a place to host them
>   :provided, but not explicitly encouraged or endorsed by
> fedorapeople.org
>
> 4. I want to build these pkgs and they have new deps on pkgs which are
> not in fedora and I need to chain-build them from arbitrary
>   :not provided by anything currently since you cannot build pkgs in
> koji with arbitrary deps from arbitrary repos.

5. Some easy way to enable/disable such repos other than messing with
config files?