standard CI packages files

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:42 AM, Barak Korren <bkorren at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 12 March 2018 at 09:55, Yedidyah Bar David <didi at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The various automation/*.packages* files are rather hard to maintain -
>> with many partial duplicates, symlinks, and changes applied to some
>> file forgotten to be applied to others that needed them.
>>
>> Can we have something more dynamic? E.g. that CI will run a single
>> script, e.g. automation/get-needed-packages, provide it as args the
>> action to be ran ("check-patch", "build-artifacts" etc.) and the
>> distro ("el7", "fc27" etc.) and use whatever it outputs as the list of
>> packages to install?
>>
>
> The problem with this approach is that its a slippery slope - because
> the script to calculate the packages might need packages of its own to
> run...

I see your point, but not sure it's a real problem.

>
> In STDCI V2 we laid the groundwork for using a single YAML file to
> specify everything, this will open up the possibility of using YAML
> inheritance and macros to share specification parts between different
> jobs. I think that can be a good enough compromise.

Perhaps. When will we have this?

Thanks,
-- 
Didi