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

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:21:51PM +0800, Liang Suilong wrote:
> It looks that copr will come soon. I have a question about it. 
> 
> Could we add some dependencies from other copr repo? Fedora official repo
> sometimes could not offer the latest one but some packages need them. 
> 
yes.  The idea is that when you create a copr repo you'll specify what other
repositories to target.  The minimum would likely be Fedora-VER
+ Fedora-VER-updates.  In addition you will be able to specify other copr
repositories that target the same Fedora-VER and possibly
Fedora-VER-updates-testing (not precisely sure about that last one yet.)

-Toshio

> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:14 AM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
>     On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 15:10 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>     > > Item 4 is the main point that has been the big ticket item that things
>     > > like Canonical's PPAs have hit.
>     >
>     > They also hit the Staples Easy Button about 1000 times.  If there's a
>     > case to be made that this should be easy to do, then we should add
>     > tolling to common/Makefile to:
>     >
>     > 1) make an srpm
>        check
> 
>     > 2) build it as a scratch build in koji
>        check
> 
>     > 3) automatically download the built packages
>        check
> 
>     3.5) Sign the pkgs with your (or someone's) gpg key
>       not-so-check
> 
>     > 4) scp them to your fedorapeople account
> 
>       unchecked
> 
>     > 5) run createrepo remotely on the fp account
> 
>       createrepo is not fp, on purpose, this could be changed - but it's
>     better to run it locally, if only b/c of whatever arbitrary arguments
>     you may want to add to it - not to mention the memory constraints.
> 
>     > 6) generate a yum .repo file for the repo and print out a link to it or
>     > something
> 
>       sure. - though we'd be better off generating an rpm which contains
>     the .repo file - so people could 'install' the repositories in the
>     strictest sense.
> 
>     -sv
> 
> 
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