On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 08:58 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net) said:
> > That's solving a different problem the wrong way, which certainly
> > seems better suited to a bit in the review request, or packagedb, etc.
>
> The target is to automate review requests as much as possible not pile
> up new manual checks. I don't ask this just for fun. I ask this because
> I happen to do comps QA for my SIG every few months and manual checks
> are not fun at all.
How is packagedb or bugzilla not automatable? We have programmatic interfaces
to both.
All I'm saying is that changing the user-visible behavior in order
to implement a specific QA method for comps is putting the cart
before the horse.
There is a visible flag for groups¹. So we could have a /dev/null group
without it being directly user visible.
However that'll add roughly 874K to comps. (65K compressed), then
yum/etc. has to parse it all out whenever we need group info. and the
"all packagenames need to be in at least one group" doesn't strike me as
a very good rule, anyway.
¹ yum-groups-manager --id /dev/null --not-user-visible yum
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Red Hat