Guidelines

Terra uses a slightly different packaging guideline for packages from Fedora's. This article is to outline the specific different guidelines in Terra.

Interpreted Languages (Python, Ruby, etc.)

All packages using interpreted languages follow the traditional Fedora guidelines, with all dependencies must be packaged individually as they are considered runtime dependencies.

Dynamically compiled languages (C, C++, Vala)

Dependencies must also be packaged separately if they are required for runtime.

Statically compiled languages

As Terra does not strictly follow Fedora's reproducibility requirements, and we do not want large amounts of development library languages for them, packagers should vendor dependencies on build time.

Terra's mock sandbox has networking enabled, so builders can download the dependencies directly on build time.

Rust

Do not use the tradtional Fedora cargo prep macros. Use %cargo_prep_online from anda-srpm-macros instead, and do not use the %generate_builddeps macro, as it is useless.

Go

Use the go compiler directly instead of using Fedora's Go macros, as this will generate offline dependencies that we do not want to package.