On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 7:03 AM Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
<marma...@invisiblethingslab.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 10:56:43PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 9:23 PM Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 12:17:28AM +0100, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki 
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Does it make sense?
> > >
> > > That does make sense to me... and perhaps this fits in with that we
> > > generate debuginfo/debugsource rpms when we build something. We just 
> > > expand things
> > > to also produce a buildinfo subpackage (of course then we need tools to
> > > gather them/put them in a repo/allow users to install them, etc).
>
> Can you expand on that last part? Are you referring to some automation
> that pulls debuginfo rpms into a separate repository? I guess the
> buildinfo one should go into sources repo, right?
>
> > > Then, you could 'dnf install foobar-buildinfo-1.0-1.fc35' and possibly
> > > there could be tools that would read that .buildinfo and feed the
> > > src.rpm into mock or whatever with that input?
> > >
> >
> > That is, of course, another valid strategy, and may make sense given
> > the archful nature of some things.
>
> New sub-package sounds like a good idea. Is it ok to package it as a
> single file in /usr/src/buildinfo?
>

Sure, we'd probably have buildinfo packages in a separate repository
like we do debuginfo packages. Most people will never use them.

The advantage of -buildinfo packages is that we can start with a
buildinfo file and actually add more as we want to have more complete
build records, including macros, environment variables, etc.




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