On Fri, May 12, 2023, 1:03 PM Mattia Verga via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Il 10/05/23 12:54, Aoife Moloney ha scritto:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FlatpaksWithoutModules
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I've never tried to make a flatpak because I was scared by the need of
firstly build modules and I'm really happy to see this change moving on.

However, there's something I can't understand: AFAIK, a flatpak is
platform independent, so a flatpak built on F39 can be installed on any
Fedora version or even on other Linux distributions... right?
So, why having all those "Fedora Containers" releases in Bodhi which
follow Fedora branches? Isn't just one Fedora Containers release enough?
What happens if one builds the same flatpak on multiple Fedora
Containers releases?
infrastructure/new_issue

The "F38 Flatpaks" release in Bodhi represents Flatpaks built with the F38 package set against the F8 runtime. But, yes, as you say we handle Flatpaks as a single stream. Once we release Firefox into "F39 Flatpaks", everybody on all releases gets that and we never do an update in "F38 Flatpaks" again.

If updates *do* get pushed on multiple releases, last pushed wins. Might be useful if we found that we pushed something to early or broken - but isn't normal.

But what if we had a single release instead?

On a technical level, we rely on separate releases because Bodhi is using that to know what koji tag to pull from. So to merge them, we'd probably need a single dest tag in Koji as well. But would it be more convenient and less confusing for packagers and users? Would there be any performance or UI problems from having a release in Bodhi that extends indefinitely?

In any case, a change to how we handle Flatpak releases in Koji could be done separately from this change proposal :-)

- Owen