Formatted minutes can be viewed here: https://md.archlinux.org/s/HDtd8_C0z Raw markdown (Still waiting for an angel to come down and tell me about markdown conversion to plain text with inline url markers!): # 2022-06-08 repod meeting Date: 2022-06-08T17:00:00Z - 19:20:00Z Location: Jitsi Scribe: Brett (ainola/brett) ## Attendees * artafinde * brett * dvzrv ## Agenda ### macOS build environment * pyalpm needed but cannot install on macOS * makepkg fails to build in brew due to fakeroot failing to build ### Refactoring models Huge refactoring for models and some helper functions ([#39](https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/repod/-/merge_requests/39)) * Lots of regexes added to models for validation. Accompanying tests added. * Static analysis isn't necessary because of fixtures * Documentation of testing in CONTRIBUTION.md * Defaults are set for models * PKGINFO schema/parser is the last remaining item ([#53](https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/repod/-/merge_requests/39)) ### Python pinning * This morning saw master branches fail building without any changes due to Python 3.10.5 making it to `[core]`. * Python version pinning not desirable/easy, issues will be handled as they come. ### python-magic New dep added for python-magic; the version of python-magic in the Arch repos does not exist on PyPi, making installation confusing. The Arch package even points to [file(1)'s homepage](https://darwinsys.com/file/). ### Distro agnosticism A few members were under the mistaken impression that `repod` was intending to become a general-purpose project that is distro-agnostic, i.e. `apt`, `dnf`, `pacman`, et al could be serviced with `repod`. This is not the case! * `repod`'s Python-based runtime should be able to run on any distribution * `repod` is only designed to service pacman-based packages * All Arch Linux-based derivatives (i.e. any distro that utilizes pacman) will be able to use this software. It's likely that the confusion came from an off-hand comment some weeks ago regarding distro-agnosticism. The project README is pretty clear:
This project contains tooling to maintain binary package repositories for Linux distributions using the pacman package manager.
It's *possible* for other package managers to add their support here but it's not a goal of the project. ### Funding Prototype Fund sadly did not work out. However, two applications for [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl/) have also been sent in. ### Announcing repod to forks Support for multiple architectures is an important future goal for Arch Linux, and we should strive to e.g. incorporate external ARM efforts into Arch Linux. Other [Arch based distributions](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch-based_distributions) might also be interested in collaborating with repod since they may end up deploying their own copy of it. ### Action items * Figure out how [python-magic](https://pypi.org/project/python-magic/) is to be packaged so it doesn't conflict with the current package and/or make repod compatible with file's python-magic and python-magic * Research all of the notable Arch-based distributions (distrowatch seems a decent-enough overview of popularity) and contact them about collaboration with repod: * Which ones have their own build automation vs how many directly use Arch's repositories? (i.e. which distributions would be interested in collaborating with us on repod to make all of our lives easier?) * Draft up communications for these distributions: Our goal is to introduce repod/our packaging vision and to solicit their feedback/help on the project itself.