Gathering packages

A compose created by Pungi consists of one or more variants. A variant contains a subset of the content targeted at a particular use case.

There are different types of variants. The type affects how packages are gathered into the variant.

The inputs for gathering are defined by various gather sources. Packages from all sources are collected to create a big list of package names, comps groups names and a list of packages that should be filtered out.

Note

The inputs for both explicit package list and comps file are interpreted as RPM names, not any arbitrary provides nor source package name.

Next, gather_method defines how the list is processed. For nodeps, the results from source are used pretty much as is [1]. For deps method, a process will be launched to figure out what dependencies are needed and those will be pulled in.

Variant types

Variant

is a base type that has no special behaviour.

Addon

is built on top of a regular variant. Any packages that should go to both the addon and its parent will be removed from addon. Packages that are only in addon but pulled in because of gather_fulltree option will be moved to parent.

Integrated Layered Product

works similarly to addon. Additionally, all packages from addons on the same parent variant are removed integrated layered products.

The main difference between an addon and integrated layered product is that integrated layered product has its own identity in the metadata (defined with product name and version).

Note

There’s also Layered Product as a term, but this is not related to variants. It’s used to describe a product that is not a standalone operating system and is instead meant to be used on some other base system.

Optional

contains packages that complete the base variants’ package set. It always has fulltree and selfhosting enabled, so it contains build dependencies and packages which were not specifically requested for base variant.

Some configuration options are overridden for particular variant types.

Depsolving configuration

Variant

Fulltree

Selfhosting

base

configurable

configurable

addon/ILP

enabled

disabled

optional

enabled

enabled

Profiling

Profiling data on the pungi-gather tool can be enabled by setting the gather_profiler configuration option to True.

Modular compose

A compose with gather_source set to module is called modular. The package list is determined by a list of modules.

The list of modules that will be put into a variant is defined in the variants.xml file. The file can contain either Name:Stream or Name:Stream:Version references. See Module Naming Policy for details. When Version is missing from the specification, Pungi will ask PDC for the latest one.

The module metadata in PDC contains a list of RPMs in the module as well as Koji tag from which the packages can be retrieved.

Restrictions

  • A modular compose must always use Koji as a package set source.