[rdo-dev] Rebuilding openstack-rocky packages on premise.

Dear All, After Rocky release we discovered that Build requires only dependencies are not shipped anymore in the final repository/release. (Which was still the case with Queens) For us it is a issue as we need to patch and rebuild few Openstack package. As discussed on IRC, the obvious solution is to mirror the cloud7-openstack-rocky-el7-build [2] as build dependencies have been tagged there and use this repository with our builders. However this mean to sync to an internal mirror almost the whole distribution (koji internal repo do a big mergerepo) for each Openstack release (and very often as the buildroot tag is updated almost everyday). Could we think about a better way for Stein ? Maybe we could have an extra tag for build dependencies that is inherited by the buildroot tag ? And push these packages somewhere more accessible for power users ? I am not sure that overloading the buildroot tag was foreseen from the initial koji design. Also koji web cannot be used as a reliable mirror. I think it is important to provide to the community a way to rebuild packages as it was the case with previous release. Also, can we document this change and workaround somewhere ? Let me know if you have better ideas and or comments ! -- Thomas Oulevey [1]: http://cbs.centos.org/kojifiles/repos/cloud7-openstack-rocky-el7-build/la...