What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Dec 6 07:21:59 UTC 2012




On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Jan Zelený wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I guess the main reason why SCL is not used in Fedora it requires a certain
> (potentially non-trivial) amount of work from package maintainer.
>
> However feel free to make your packages SCL enabled. You shouldn't have any
> issues with that. Just make necessary modification in your spec files, build all
> packages against the Fedora in which you want them and host them in your repo.
>
> The only inconvenience here is that Fedora infrastructure isn't yet prepared
> for simple support of private repositories in a style of Launchpad so you have
> to do all this work manually.


Bohuslav and I are working hard on making the copr code ready.

http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/copr.git

and very soon we're going to need more help.

-sv


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