Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 16:22 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Tom spot Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) said: 
> > On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 14:29 -0400, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> > 
> > > A page detailing the reasons for keeping the exception is now up on the
> > > wiki:
> > > 
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeepakBhole/ReasonsForKeepingJPP
> > 
> > Deepak, thanks for writing that up. Seth Vidal has helped me come up
> > with a technical solution that should meet the requirements described in
> > your document.
> > 
> > http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/exclude-by-group/
> 
> This seems very wrong.
> 
> What I'm reading is that JPackage developers want to not use anything
> in Fedora that also exists in JPackage.
> 
> Isn't this better done by repo costs and similar plugins, rather
> than hacks either in the package version or vendor which can
> be easily fooled?

repo costs only work for exact-matches of the package nevra - not
partial matches.

So one way or another you have to do this via a plugin.
-sv