On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 12:08 -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > Hello all, > In the Fedora 24 timeframe the Fedora Release Engineering group > is > aiming to deliver the Layered Image Build Service[0] to allow Fedora > contributors to build containers images. In the first iteration of > this we're targeting Docker layered image support. Part of this will > be to allow Fedora contributors to maintain Dockerfiles much like we > maintain rpm spec files via DistGit. > > However we need to make a couple of decisions about naming > conventions > such that we can distinguish between rpms and container images as > they > are stored in Fedora DistGit. Also, alternatively we could setup a > completely separate DistGit for container images that is disjoint > from the one used for rpms. I would love feedback on everyone's > preferences between those two options.
You could set it up in /srv/git/containers, in parallel to the current /srv/git/rpms ? That nicely avoids naming collisions. It also should be quite asy now that dist-git is in ansible, you could probably just factor out the path in the roles as a variable? > Cockpit's Dockerfile repo in DistGit would be stored with a > leading special character: > fedpkg clone -cockpit With the "-" as a leading character, you open yourself to nice errors with the fact that it could be recognized as options. So you'd want to type: fedpkg clone -- -cockpit Alternatively, if you separate the two distgits, you could have a fedcontainer tool, which would just be fedpkg but with its configuration pointing to the container distgit, the container build service, etc... Or maybe just a: fedpkg --container clone cockpit ? Most of the code (at least the one handling dist-git) could probably be reused without any difference. All in all, separating them seems much simpler to me. You'd have a bit of work up front (to adapt the Ansible playbooks and fedpkg slightly), but you pretty much avoid a whole class of issues with naming collisions, cli options, and future surprises. -- Mathieu -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
