Heads up: F23 products/spins, weak rpm dependencies, and you

[Neal Gompa]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:

> In Fedora 23, rpm has grown support for weak dependencies (Recommends:
> and Suggests: tags). However, the compose tools have not been ported to
> dnf/libsolv yet, which means these tags will have no effect at image
> compose time.
>
> This has implications for spin kickstarts: the set of packages included
> in media derived from a kickstart will be a subset of the packages you
> would see installed by passing the kickstart package/group list to dnf.
> As a result, any packages that you want to see included on the
> generated media must be either explicitly listed in the kickstart, or
> brought in with Requires: from another package. Technically this is not
> different from previous Fedora releases, but it is different from what
> you might get from using F23's dnf to compute a package list.
>
> Product and spin kickstart maintainers are advised to double-check the
> package manifests for the produced media to ensure all packages they
> want included actually are included.
>
> - ajax
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​Are the compose tools going to match DNF's behavior in package dependency
resolution in the near future?​


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