On Wed, 2022-05-04 at 17:01 +0200, Ondrej Nosek wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A few months ago fedpkg introduced a change which avoids downloading
> source files (from dist-git) that are not used in the specfile and
> therefore downloading them would be wasting of resources and time.
> The original request was opened here [1] and implemented here [2].
> The logic is part of the command "fedpkg sources" and currently can't
> be disabled manually. The logic parses specfile, but doesn't do a
> deep analysis, so it is doesn't always right.
> 
> Recently we got a request for opt-in implementation of this. It means
> you should actively use some argument (ie. --skip-unused) to avoid
> downloading unused sources. The requestor points out that it broke
> the original functionality and it is not possible to add any extra
> arguments into the complicated release process (RHEL kernel).

where is this request ? I can't find it 

Thank you 

> 
> On the other hand, opt-out (--download-unused) has (I think) a
> significantly higher impact on saving resources (time and network
> capacity). Of course, it doesn't have to be implemented as an extra
> argument, there might be a different (maybe not so clean) solution
> for such projects.
> 
> What do you think about it?
> 
> I added into a loop (bcc) names who already were involved in this in
> a past (on the Fedora devel mailing list)
> 
> Thanks, Ondrej
> 
> [1] https://pagure.io/rpkg/issue/559
> [2] https://pagure.io/rpkg/pull-request/564
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