Koji feature proposals

[Mike Bonnet]

On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 21:51 +0100, Oliver Falk wrote:
> Hi Mike!
> 
> Mike Bonnet schrieb:
> > I've just created tickets for a few Koji features that I've been wanting
> > to implement for a while (as well as updated an old one), and I'm
> > planning to devote some time to in the near future.  If you have any
> > comments on these features feel free to post to the tickets, or talk to
> > me at FUDCon this weekend.  Just figured people might want to see the
> > direction that Koji is headed.  The future is now! :)
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> > drop the rpmfiles and rpmdeps tables: https://fedorahosted.org/koji/ticket/124
> 
> -1
> Only if you provide the same functionality using another approach :-)

Yes, the plan is to query the information directly from the rpms rather
than from the database.  The content on the rpminfo page in the web UI
should not change at all from the user perspective.

> *I* do use it quite often; Find out which file belongs to which pkg(s).
> 
> However, this was quite slow and now doesn't even seem to work in 
> koji.fpo. :-(

Hmmm, it should be.  In what way is it not working?

> > noarch subpackage support: https://fedorahosted.org/koji/ticket/125
> 
> Duh? We do have already (at least one) packages that build arch-specific 
> and noarch pkgs -> kernel or do we use some *hack* in the kernel.spec?

We use a hack in the kernel specfile and in the build system.  The
noarch subpackage support in rpm is much more generic and flexible, and
we need to support it without build system hacks.

> And regarding your point: '... different arches build noarch subpackage 
> with different contents'. Well, then it's definitly not *noarch*, is't 
> it? :-)

True, but it's still possible, and we may need to check for this case
and handle is appropriately (possibly by failing the build).