On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 3:42 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 12:02:40PM -0400, Robbie Harwood wrote:
> > Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> writes:
> > > It is under discussion whether this snapshot will have its own
> > > installation media. For now the preferred way to test ELN composes
> > > would be to use standard Fedora Rawhide images and then include ELN as
> > > an additional repository.
> >
> > Is there a dnf change that goes with this to prefer ELN content, then?
>
> Yeah, that's something I was trying to figure out too. As discussed
> before, for rpm '.eln < .fc33', so if the same package is available
> from both sources, the rawhide one will win.
>

If there was a "dnf distro-sync --prefer-repo=foo" kind of feature,
maybe that'd work? Maybe repo priorities? I'm not sure how this would
work...

> > > ELN artifacts will be made available for testing and development
> > > purposes, but we will not be shipping any content produced from ELN
> > > directly to the general public (such as on the standard mirror network
> > > or via getfedora.org).
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Though it is a System-Wide Change it has no user-facing component. We
> > > may announce it through other channels.
> >
> > I'm confused.  This is going to be installable and testable, but has no
> > user-facing component?  What's a user-facing component then?
>
> FWIW, I think it's OK to have to first install rawhide and then to
> enable eln repos on top to have a working installation. Or to do
> 'dnf --installroot'. Building an an installer image and such doesn't
> seem necessary, esp. in the beginning.
>

I would argue that it is necessary, if it's intended to be as
interesting and useful as this Change proposes.



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