On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 10:49 AM Michel Alexandre Salim <mic...@michel-slm.name> wrote: > > > > On 5/1/20 1:10 AM, Petr Pisar wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 12:32:26PM -0700, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > >> Generally speaking (I can make this a separate thread if that helps) - do > >> we > >> expect every package in EPEL8 to also be built for EPEL8-playground, either > >> through package.cfg or by building directly from the epel8-playground > >> branch? > > > > There is no such rule, but in my opinion, it is welcomed for exactly the > > terrible > > experience anybody gets when he tries to use epel8-playground. > > > Right, but if some package repos are missing packages.cfg and the > maintainer does not build it separately for epel8-playground, it is a > terrible experience for other packages depending on this missing package > -- everytime the maintainer submits an epel8 build, the epel8-playground > target will report a build failure. > > > The purpose of epel8-playground is to diverge when needed. That's why the > > epel8 > > branch contains package.cfg by default. > > > That seems to be the case for packages branched normally (fedpkg > request-branch). *However* I've seen some packages where the epel8 > branch and master branch are identical -- not sure how it happens, maybe > the committer has force-push permission? Or is there a way to request > that a branch be cloned from another branch instead of created from scratch? >
I prefer my EPEL branches to be this way when possible. And it's simple enough to do fedpkg clone <package> cd <package> fedpkg switch-branch epel8 git merge master fedpkg push Nothing fancy about it, as long as you are the maintainer of the epel branch. Troy _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org
