On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Michal Novotny <cl...@redhat.com> wrote:

> The question here is why don't we actually implement the modularity
> the simple way.
>
> Let's suppose I would like to make nodejs-8 available in EPEL7.
>
> The most effortless way would be to create subdirectory called 8 at
> src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/nodejs
> with the updated spec file and sources for the bumped major version of
> the nodejs package.
>

What if your module contains packages coming from multiple SRPMs and they
depend on each other?

Jan Kaluza


>
> For fedpkg to be able to upload and download sources for that
> subdirectory (submodule), the attached
> single-line patch is needed in python-rpkg. There are a few more
> changes needed to make srpm
> importing work but it should be basically almost done as well.
>
> Koji then just needs to learn how to build DistGit repositories
> containing submodules where
> submodule is any subdirectory containing a spec file. When Koji
> discovers all the submodules
> in a repository, it can start an srpm and a consequent rpm build for
> each of them.
>
> It is a very similar approach to what find_packages from python
> setuptools implements. It
> recognizes subpackages based on the presence of __init__.py file. The
> only difference here
> is that we will be recognizing subpackages (=submodules) by the
> presence of *.spec file.
>
> Everything else should be pretty much the same otherwise. Koji builds
> nodejs-6 and nodejs-8 rpms
> both with el7 disttag and both of these can go through the Bodhi
> update process separately.
>
> Of course, the question is if you can actually build and run nodejs-8
> in EL7 successfully but
> I think that will always be a problem no matter what the implementation is.
>
> clime
>
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 8:08 PM, Jan Kaluza <jkal...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 4:43 PM, Adam Williamson
> > <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, 2018-03-19 at 10:58 +0100, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote:
> >> > On Mon 19 Mar 2018 09:38:58 AM GMT Fabio Valentini wrote:
> >> > > So you think having to send a request to a web service instead of
> just
> >> > > parsing a string locally with one line of code is a good trade-off
> for
> >> > > allowing dashes?
> >> >
> >> > This has been mentioned several times in this thread and I think
> there's
> >> > a misunderstanding around this.
> >> >
> >> > So: When your tool/whatever works with modules it will have to have
> >> > module metadata available in some form.
> >>
> >> What if I don't want to work with modules at all, just with information
> >> about modules?
> >>
> >> What if I just want to write a tool that parses fedmsgs about module
> >> builds in Koji and does something that depends on module names, streams
> >> and versions? (e.g. some sort of changelog thing)
> >
> >
> > Your tool can use good old buildsys.build.state.change fedmsg with the
> well
> > known name/version/release fields like this:
> >
> > https://apps.stg.fedoraproject.org/datagrepper/
> raw?topic=org.fedoraproject.stg.buildsys.build.state.change
> >
> > That's staging, because it's easier for me to find the module builds
> there
> > :).
> >
> > Unfortunatelly, Koji does not add "type" field there, so you cannot find
> out
> > if that's module or not. But in case your tool is doing general changelog
> > per Koji build, it will work quite well with modules without you even
> > noticing you are working with modules.
> >
> > In case of tools, you can even query koji using its api and pass the
> > name/version/release there, instead of NVR.
> >
> > If you query Koji for the module build, you will actually find whole
> module
> > metadata in "extra" part of the build.
> >
> > In case you are OK with using MBS fedmsgs, you can use the fedmsgs Nils
> > already sent in this thread.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jan Kaluza
> >
> >> --
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