Recapitulate the current state of Fedora Extras and some ideas to make it better

[Jesse Keating]

On Monday 10 July 2006 12:00, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Can you shed some light on "plague vs. brew" and why Core and Extras
> buildsys and infrastructure divert in this area?

Brew is a management layer over Mock, like Plague is.  Brew was written with a 
package database backend in mind, and development on it started before Plague 
work began, but we didn't get to the point of actually using it until very 
recently.  It is interesting now that there is work being considered to add a 
package database to Plague.

Brew handles some things Red Hat needs for RHEL, much more strict tracking of 
build root contents for package builds, finer grained collection inheritince, 
collection locking (does plague do this?), an xml-rpc API to the package 
database, etc...  Not all of these things are needed for Fedora, but some are 
pretty nice.  There is some discussion about opensourcing Brew, the layers 
above mock.

> Also, I've read that Red Hat can set a package owner _per dist release_
> instead of _one owner per package_ (which is what our "owners.list" can do
> only).

We can _now_.  We weren't able to with beehive, the system brew replaces.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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