[JIRA] (OVIRT-1385) Support installing latest version of specific pkgs

[Vojtech Szocs (oVirt JIRA)]

Vojtech Szocs created OVIRT-1385:
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             Summary: Support installing latest version of specific pkgs
                 Key: OVIRT-1385
                 URL: https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/browse/OVIRT-1385
             Project: oVirt - virtualization made easy
          Issue Type: By-EMAIL
            Reporter: Vojtech Szocs
            Assignee: infra


​There are multiple oVirt projects [1] which contain a
`build.packages.force` (or similar) file, along with the following code in
their build script:

  # The "build.packages.force" file contains BuildRequires packages
  # to be installed using their latest version.
  # Force CI to get the latest version of these packages:
  dependencies="$(sed -e '/^[ \t]*$/d' -e '/^#/d'
automation/build.packages.force)"
  yum-deprecated clean metadata || yum clean metadata
  yum-deprecated -y install ${dependencies} || yum -y install
${dependencies}

[1] ovirt-engine-dashboard, ovirt-engine-nodejs-modules, ovirt-web-ui

Is it possible for CI to support this out of the box, using .force file
convention? (basically a suffix to standard .packages files)

I've looked at OVIRT-921 and IIUC the yum cache is cleaned every 2 days, so
an alternative to above proposal would be to have this configurable
per-project.

Not sure what's the best approach here, please advise.



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