https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238191
--- Comment #9 from Daniel Milnes <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Tom Rix from comment #8) > (In reply to Daniel Milnes from comment #5) > > Hey Tom, thanks for looking at this. > > > > > How is this useful if bazel is not itself a fedora package ? > > > > Bazelisk is effectively a package manager. It will download Bazel from the > > official sources and install it. Whilst I'd love to package Bazel itself for > > Fedora, that is a substantially more complex and brittle package to > > maintain. I'd personally argue this is equivalent to us packaging `npm`, as > > a way to download something that's not available as an RPM. > > How does this help with packaging projects in fedora that use bazel ? It doesn't, Bazelisk is an end-user tool. It's designed to allow people who have created repos that use Bazel to easily manage multiple versions of it. Without Bazelisk, the only real way to install Bazel is `curl -O /usr/local/bin/bazel https...`. This is why I think it's comparable to `npm`. We can't use it as part of an RPM spec, but it's very helpful to end-users who are working with Bazel. I don't think there's too much we can do to ease packaging projects which use Bazel for RPM. Bazel is designed to be hermetically-sealed and downloads its project dependencies to vendored directories, which is the opposite of Fedora's "Everything should come through the package manager" approach. I'm happy to have a discussion about that, but I think it's better suited to Matrix (thebeanogamer:fedora.im). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are always notified about changes to this product and component You are on the CC list for the bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238191 Report this comment as SPAM: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla&format=report-spam&short_desc=Report%20of%20Bug%202238191%23c9 -- _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
