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

[drago01]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:51 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 21:49 +0200, drago01 wrote:
>> 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?
>
> yum-config-manager --enable repo1 repo2 repo3

My wording might not have been the best with enable I actually meant install.

something like
copers --enable foo
copers --disable foo

which would download and set up the repo.

(Shouldn't be really hard to do though)