On 10/13/26 7:59 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 05:39:42PM +0100, Aoife Moloney via devel-announce
wrote:
* Proposal owners:
** Test critical package set build pipeline in a throw-away side-tag,
address any blocker issues
Hmm, that sounds like you want to push commits to dist-git to do the tests.
Why not use copr for this?
Basically because copr is not koji + the rest of the Fedora infra.
Package builds themselves are quite uninteresting from our POV, there's
basically nothing to see. It's how the stuff interacts with the rest of
the infra that needs testing.
Copr itself needs testing of course. Hrmh, which reminds me - COPR
itself was fine with v6 (IIRC), but we'll need a newer obs-sign than
what's in Fedora now to handle v6 package signing.
Off to file a bug...
** Switch a couple of packages (eg. popt and rpm itself) to v6
manually, address any blocker issues
** Switch v6 on in rpm configuration
** Watch out for build/test/infra failures caused by the change
** Address any encountered RPM issues with high priority
** Assist with dealing with possible fallout in other projects
** Before mass-rebuild, switch back to v4 if too many issues remain
and postpone to F47
* Other developers:
** Test that any RPM related software they use or maintain continues to function
** Report discovered issues for awareness
** Address incompatibilities in their software
* Release engineering:
[https://forge.fedoraproject.org/releng/tickets/issues/13546 #13546]
* Policies and guidelines: N/A(not needed for this Change)
* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
* Alignment with the Fedora Strategy: This is a leading development in
the Linux distro space.
== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
In general, there's little user visible impact, v4 and v6 packages can
peacefully coexist where needed.
This is important for 3rd party packages. Some external packages might
use the old version for a while.
Truly. In the v3 -> v4 transition, some 3rd packages held on to v3
(infamously, Java packaging) for more than a decade after the format was
considered not just deprecated but well and truly obsolete.
- Panu -
Zbyszek
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