On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:41:18AM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>
> We cant easily do this. Without creating a maintenance headache for 
> ourselves. 
> mash grabs all the packages from a koji tag and puts them into a repo.  
> taking 
> into account inheritance.  
> 
> To implement this we would need to setup additional tags inheriting  from the 
> build tags and then we would need to block all of the packages we dont want 
> in 
> the mashed repos. if any sub rpms are split across repos we cant do that.  
> Keeping in mind we should be getting everything into Fedora/EPEL so that the 
> koji we use can go away remember its only a temporary setup. This is alot of 
> extra work for little gain.   the blocking of packages would need to happen 
> on 
> each and every version bump of spacewalk.  our best bet is likely to block 
> the 
> packages that are shipped in RHEL so we do not build our own version and make 
> sure that CentOS ships them. and continue with our single repo.

If mash cannot achieve what we need to achieve, perhaps we need to
work with the upstream to add the features we need there, or consider
using other tools (pungi?), or write our own.

-- 
Jan Pazdziora | adelton at #satellite*, #brno
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat

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