Il 24/03/22 09:12, Petr Pisar ha scritto:
> V Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 05:40:28PM +0000, Mattia Verga via devel napsal(a):
>> So, now that we have side-tags to perform this kind of builds, does the
>> buildroot override existence still make sense? Is there any use case
>> that still requires BR overrides and cannot be done with side-tags?
>>
> I use overrides pretty extensively when populating new EPEL. If you have
> a deep dependency tree and the packages are scattered among many maintainers,
> it's much faster to use an override than to block depending packages for
> a week. Side tags also do not work there because every new package would reset
> the testing period. And if I'm not mistaken non-proven packagers cannot edit
> other's updates. And I don't count communication overhead. People would end up
> mixing various side tags and crosstagging builds.
>
Maybe BR overrides usage should be restricted only to users with special
needs (users in provenpackager or releng groups), while "normal" users
should be forced to take the side-tag way?

Mattia

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