[rdo-dev] Status of python3 PoC in RDO - 13-jul-2018

[Paul Belanger]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 06:16:04PM +0200, Alfredo Moralejo Alonso wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Alan Pevec <apevec at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > > I think having the two separated images is the only way we can ensure we
> > are not polluting the image in the initial phase with packages newer that
> > in the stabilized repo.
> >
> > This should be a small list, are any of those actually included in the
> > base image?
> >
> 
> Yes, the list is small but we can't be sure if it will change at some
> point, and analysing if we are having one of those cases on each change is
> too error prone, IMO.
> 
> 
> > Alternatively, which jobs use "normal" f28 images, could we switch
> > them to use "stabilized" f28 ?
> >
> 
> fedora-stable has the required packages to run and build python3 packages.
> Currently it's missing some requirements for the jobs running on fedora 28
> image although it's something we could work on.
> 
> 
> >
> > Alan
> >
> 
> Maybe I'm underestimating the cost of maintaining two different images for
> fedora, but my understanding is that the resources the extra image uses and
> the effort to maintain is workable. Please, correct me if i'm wrong.

I wouldn't say minimal, but there is a cost. With fedora-29 around the corner,
it does mean we have 2 iamges to update now, over one. How long does this image
need to live for?  When can we get to a point of just using the default fedora
image?

- Paul