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| We group these binary packages into ''modules''. Note, we can pick just a subset of the subpackages from a particular build into a given module, eg. some hypothetical example base runtime module:
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| These are internal build groupings: basically ''repositories'', but with additional metadata and semantics that allow them to play nicely with other modules and module tooling.
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| We attach metadata to these modules, on top of the normal metadata in a repository. That can be support metadata (SLAs or EOL dates for the module); metadata on how to use the module (eg. its dependencies, default installed packages); identity (builder, vendor, version etc), or many other things that we’re still just starting to imagine.
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| We should be able to update the module as a unit: updating and testing its component parts as necessary, but also testing the module as a whole before releasing an update.
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| We refer to the assembly of a module by a build tool as a ''compose''. This step includes no compilation; it is merely the creation of a bundled set of packages and metadata comprising a single module. The closest analogue in today’s build system is the “puddle build”, where a custom repository is created for a particular purpose.
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| When we talk about a '''module compose''', we are ''not'' talking about “the Compose” of a full distribution release. The two are similar, in that they both assemble existing compiled packages into bundled output; but the module compose is just one single targeted assembly, whereas the full distribution Compose typically creates multiple repositories and images as output in a single large job. Also note that we can in theory perform the build of the packages within a module, and the compose of the module itself, as a single step; we might term this a '''module build.'''
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