Status of experimental COPR packages

John Thurston john.thurston at alaska.gov
Mon Sep 9 16:03:19 UTC 2019


On 9/6/2019 12:10 PM, Victoria Risk wrote:
>> I really like what I'm seeing with the COPR distribution: 
>> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/isc/ The description there
>> still states "..USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.”

> John- Do you still see those messages? I don’t see them. I thought I
> removed all those comments about ‘experimental’ and ‘use at your own
> risk’ a while ago.

No I don't . . . now that you call my attention to it.
I had guessed there would be an announcement on the blog, or to the 
announce-list if its status had changed. Obviously, that wasn't a valid 
assumption.


> We did recently start setting up another site, Cloudsmith.io, for
> some of our packages. We need a site we can control for non-public
> stuff, like the BIND subscription edition, and private patches, and
> Cloudsmith allows us to put packages for multiple different OSes in
> one repo.  I need to find out whether we plan to continue updating
> the COPR site or not.  I think we do,(because of course it is easier
> to ‘find’ than Cloudsmith) but we haven’t discussed it explicitly.

Which makes it sound like the future of the COPR distribution isn't yet 
clear. This is a pretty important topic to us, and I'd welcome any 
information you can offer. I'm not trying to drive your product 
offerings, just trying to divine which way the wind is blowing.

 From my perspective, I'm quite pleased with how the COPR distribution 
is working out. It was only a little bit of work to make the "software 
collection" concept meet our needs, and I'd dearly like to be able to 
consider it stable.

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John Thurston    907-465-8591
John.Thurston at alaska.gov
Department of Administration
State of Alaska


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