FedoraSummit/NewBuildSystem

Fedora: The New Build System

The Goal

If Fedora is going to be built entirely in the community space, then we need a new build system that can do the job.

Status Quo

We've currently got two build systems in the Fedora world: Plague, which we use to build Extras packages, and another build system which is used within Red Hat. There are useful features in each. We've compared the features from each of these build systems to the requirements for the new build system. (B) indicates that the required feature is already present in the Red hat buildsystem. (P) indicates that it's present in Plague.

After a discussion with Red Hat management, the action items for this plan will be fleshed out in more detail.

Requirements

• Build the package via mock from SCM (P)(B)
• Queue builds (P)(B)
• Optional architectures
• Multiple owner tracking by tag/arch/etc. (B)
• Tagless/scratch builds (B)(P)
• Personal collections (B) (Maybe not a hard requirement - JK)
• Collection inheritance / tag builds for multiple collections (B)
• Integrates with identity management (P)
• Delivery mechanism / Multilib
• Builders in different physical locations (P)
• Access to the build root on failure (Maybe not a hard requirement - JK)
• Packages in build root but not in collection (P)(B)

Action Items

Task Name	Project Lead	Target Date	Notes
Priority 1

Closed Items

Task Name	Owner	Completion Date	Notes
Wiki page for New Build System task list	GregDeKoenigsberg	2006-11-13	Done, obviously :)
Talk with RH management about Koji	JeremyKatz	2007-02-13	Koji codebase dropped https://fedorahosted.org/koji

Notes

• Always enter dates in ISO-8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD).

Priority Level Key
1	Do it now
2	Do it soon
3	Better late than never
4	Moot