[libvirt] [jenkins-ci PATCH 6/3] guests: Implement package blacklist

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:18:17AM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-03-21 at 16:11 +0100, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> > > +++ b/guests/vars/projects/blacklist.yml
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
> > > +---
> > > +packages:
> > > +  - nano
> > 
> > In the past we've installed some packages, that were removed from
> > ansible and it would make sense to list them in the blacklist in order
> > to cleanup existing installations that someone can already have.
> > 
> > The list of the removed packages is:
> > 
> >     polkit-devel
> >     glibc-rpcgen on Fedora > 27 (it was glibc-common)
> > 
> > Anyway, this can be a followup patch.
> 
> The rpcgen stuff is pretty confusing, even though I'm the one who
> made the change :) Anyway, glibc-rpcgen no longer seems to exist in
> rawhide, while glibc-common can't be removed because packages depend
> on it, so I guess there's no cleaning up required there.

Nothing should have depended on glibc-rpcgen at all - it was just a
temporary hack - any dep should have been on "rpcgen" (glibc-rpcgen
provided that as a virutal Provides), and the new RPM has that correct
name.  Prior to F27 just glibc-common is right.

> 
> As for polkit-devel, I'm trying to figure out a nice way to add it
> to the blacklist... The current naming convention is along the
> lines of
> 
>   foo:
>     deb: libfoo-dev
>     rpm: foo-devel
> 
> so it doesn't fit neatly in there, because we want to blacklist
> polkit-devel but still install polkit itself. Maybe we could have
> 
>   blacklist-polkit:
>     rpm: polkit-devel
> 
> or something similar as a workaround? Does that look reasonable?
> 
> Alternatively we can just leave the package installed, of course :)
> 
> -- 
> Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
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Regards,
Daniel
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