On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 3:30 AM Petr Pisar <ppi...@redhat.com> wrote: > > V Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 02:10:52PM -0500, Neal Gompa napsal(a): > > Have we made sure that when Red Hat forks Fedora packages for RHEL > > that they don't truncate or eliminate the Git history anymore? Because I > > would > > personally be very displeased if my historical attribution went away > > because of broken processes like the one used to fork all the Fedora > > Linux 34 packages for CentOS Stream 9. > > > It's not only about loosing attributions. There will be NEVRA discrepancies in > RHEL: > > Different number of commits will mean different release numbers. That will > break package interdependencies which requires a specific release number. E.g > foo requires bar. Fedora bar-1-2 contains a vital fix for foo. Thus Fedora foo > will strengthen the dependency with "Requires: bar >= 1-2". However, after > importing to RHEL, bar will become bar-1-1. The dependency from foo will > break.
That's a good point. The design works well within a single, continuous development environment such as Fedora's but any usage of the sources outside of that, either by importing SRPMs or by importing subsets of dist-git, seems like it would struggle. Does something like OBS suffer from the same issue? Seems it would, but I don't know much about how OBS works. > Another RHEL problem will be fixes for minor RHEL version. E.g. RHEL 10.0 will > contain foo-1-1, RHEL-10.1 updates to foo-1-2, then RHEL-10.0 backports > the change, preferably as foo-1-1.el10_0.1. However, the generated rpmautospec > schema won't allow it and will produce foo-1-2.el10_0. I foresee RHEL > maintainers to revert rpmautospec to manual numbering for minor RHEL updates. Or automation grows the ability to support that kind of versioning, if it were to be used in RHEL. > None of these issues are Fedora issues. But considering the ecosystems > wholistically, the proposed rpmautospec propotion will add a friction. Nothing is free, that's for sure :) josh _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to 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/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
