Software in infrastructure vs repositories

Freddie Rosario frosario777 at gmail.com
Wed May 30 03:52:58 UTC 2007


I am new to this list, so I hope noone minds me asking this question. What
applications are we referring to? Are these really apps or sophisticated sys
admin scripts?



On 5/29/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>
> > Do people think this is an allowable exception?  These apps are in a
> > grey area between one-off system administration scripts and applications
> > that are present in multiple environments already.  I think they must be
> > OSS and their source must be available but I'm not sure if the
> > requirement that they be packaged for Fedora is necessary.
>
> We had a policy in place before when I used to sys admin stuff that all
> the packages needs to be available in the distribution repository and
> any local scripts be cleanly separated. It helps a lot.  You get
> packaging and legal checks. Even if a particular piece of software is
> used only in one place in the Fedora infrastructure not having it in the
> repository means the team is solely responsible for keeping track of any
> security issues. It is up to the team to decide to allow exceptions but
> you have to weigh the benefits carefully.
>
> > I also foresee us running into issues at some point with version
> > mismatches between the Fedora/EPEL packages and what we run on our
> > servers.  Maybe we want to upgrade the TurboGears stack on our servers
> > but we don't want to change the API for EPEL.  Maybe we are putting out
> > necessary updates for the apps we are working on but upgrading the bits
> > in Fedora/EPEL every two days doesn't seem like a good idea.  We need to
> > have some ability to separate what we package for Fedora from what we
> > are actively developing in Infrastructure.
>
> Again any deviations from what is in the repository is additional
> burden for the team. Deciding on the details is why having good
> documentation on the policies are helpful. Maybe this could be discussed
> in the next IRC meeting?
>
> Rahul
>
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