Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (88 mails)

[David Adam <zanchey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2020, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 7:59 AM David Adam <zanchey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is it possible to produce Fedora modular repositories using OBS? I
> > couldn't find anything in the documentation or on GitHub, but perhaps I
> > have overlooked something simple.
> >
> > The reason that I'm interested is that our package (shells:fish) is also
> > in a lot of downstream projects, including Fedora. It's part of a
> > separate module in Fedora 31. Unfortunately, module packages always take
> > priority over standalone packages, so our OBS repository is never going to
> > be selected by `dnf install`.
>
> It is not yet possible to do this from OBS directly. There's... quirks
> with modular repos.
>
> That said, I'm not sure why fish is a module in Fedora. Have you
> contacted the Fedora maintainer to see if they intend to keep it
> modularized? A lot of content has been moving back from modules to
> non-modules in Fedora.

Indeed. I spent a lot of time staring at the various Modularity pages 
trying to understand it, without much success.

I have written to the Fedora maintainers and will see what they say.

Thanks for your quick response.

David
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