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Virtual (Pseudo) Modules
========================
A virtual module is any module which is not built by MBS directly, but instead its metadata is
imported to the MBS database. A virtual module is defined using a modulemd file with extra data
in the ``xmd`` section. These are usually base modules such as ``platform``.
Example
=======
Here is an example of the Fedora 31 platform module, which is also virtual module::
document: modulemd
version: 1
data:
description: Fedora 31 traditional base
license:
module: [MIT]
name: platform
profiles:
buildroot:
rpms: [bash, bzip2, coreutils, cpio, diffutils, fedora-release, findutils, gawk,
glibc-minimal-langpack, grep, gzip, info, make, patch, redhat-rpm-config,
rpm-build, sed, shadow-utils, tar, unzip, util-linux, which, xz]
srpm-buildroot:
rpms: [bash, fedora-release, fedpkg-minimal, glibc-minimal-langpack, gnupg2,
redhat-rpm-config, rpm-build, shadow-utils]
stream: f31
summary: Fedora 31 traditional base
context: 00000000
version: 1
xmd:
mbs:
buildrequires: {}
commit: f31
koji_tag: module-f31-build
mse: TRUE
Virtual Module Fields
=====================
Required standard fields:
- ``name`` - the module's name.
- ``stream`` - the module's stream.
- ``version`` - the module's version.
- ``context`` - the module's context. This can be simply ``00000000``, which is the default value
in MBS.
Optional standard fields:
- ``profiles.buildroot`` - defines the list of packages installed during the RPM build in Koji.
- ``profiles.srpm-buildroot`` - defines the list of packages installed during the SRPM build.
``module-build-macros`` must be present if this is a base module like ``platform``.
Custom fields in xmd:
- ``buildrequires`` - the buildrequires as resolved by MBS. It should always be an empty dictionary
for base modules.
- ``commit`` - this should be ``virtual`` or some other identifier that is meaningful since a commit
is not applicable when a module is directly imported.
- ``mse`` - this is an internal identifier used by MBS to know if this is a legacy module build
prior to module stream expansion. This should always be ``TRUE``.
- ``koji_tag`` - this defines the Koji tag with the RPMs that are part of this module. For base
modules this will likely be a tag representing a buildroot. If this is a metadata-only module,
then this can be left unset.
- ``koji_side_tag_format`` - this field is used instead of ``koji_tag`` when the ``side_tag``
option is given for a build. In such a case, this field is treated as a python format string
and expanded with given value for ``side_tag``.
- ``koji_tag_with_modules`` - this defines the Koji tag with the module builds. These modules are
later used to fulfill the build requirements of modules built on against this module. This
option is used only when ``KojiResolver`` is enabled on the MBS server.
- ``virtual_streams`` - the list of streams which groups multiple modules together. For more
information on this field, see the ``Virtual Streams`` section below.
- ``disttag_marking`` - if this module is a base module, then MBS will use the stream of the base
module in the disttag of the RPMS being built. If the stream is not the appropriate value, then
this can be overridden with a custom value using this property. This value can't contain a dash,
since that is an invalid character in the disttag.
- ``use_default_modules`` - denotes if MBS should include default modules associated with it. The
default modules are taken from the SCM repo configured in the ``default_modules_scm_url`` xmd
field or in the MBS configuration ``default_modules_scm_url`` as a fallback. Any default modules
with conflicting streams will be ignored as well as any default module not found in the MBS
database. This field only applies to base modules. Takes a boolean value, defaulting to ``FALSE``
- ``default_modules_scm_url`` - the SCM repo to find the default modules associated with the base
module. If this is not specified, the MBS configuration ``default_modules_scm_url`` is used
instead. See the ``use_default_modules`` xmd field for more information. MBS will use the name
of the base module stream (or the ``rawhide_branch``) as the branch name from which to retrieve
the defaults information.
Virtual Streams
===============
The ``virtual_streams`` field defines the list of streams which groups multiple modules together.
For example, all the 8.y.z versions of the ``platform:el8.y.z`` module defines
``virtual_streams: [el8]``. That tells MBS that if some built module has a runtime dependency on
``platform:el8``, MBS can choose dependencies built against any platform modules which provides
the ``el8`` virtual stream to fulfill this dependency.
This allows building a module which buildrequires ``platform:el8.1.0`` against modules which have
been built against ``platform:el8.0.0`` as long as they both have a runtime requirement of
``platform:el8``.