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Missing devel packages (librest)
by IBBoard 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

I use the Open Build Service on build.opensuse.org to build packages for CentOS (and other distros), including the Cawbird Twitter client. Cawbird is currently failing for CentOS 8 (Streams and non-Streams) because nothing provides `pkgconfig(rest-0.7)`. Looking on pkgs.org, I can see rest-0.8.1-2.el8.x86_64.rpm for CentOS 8 when searching "rest"[1] but only see rest-devel packages in OKey and Raven repos[2]. I'm vaguely familiar with Koji from Fedora and so I found what appears to be the CentOS Koji build server. It appears that rest-devel was last built in late November[3] and is flagged as "expired" but the main rest package was built two days ago[4] (but still flagged as "expired"!) Is this normal? Does anyone know why there would be binary/library packages but not devel packages published? Thanks, IBBoard [1] https://pkgs.org/search/?q=rest [2] https://pkgs.org/search/?q=rest-devel [3] https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/rpminfo?buildrootOrder=-create_event_time… [4] https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/rpminfo?buildrootOrder=-create_event_time…

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please mark retired packages as "dead" in the branches
by Matthew Miller 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

I found and was briefly worried by https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/log4j/-/tree/c9s this morning, and then realized that https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/log4j/-/tree/main has "dead.package log4j package is retired for CS-626". Could the package-retirement process be updated to also retire packages in c9s branches? Thanks! -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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CPE Weekly Update – Week of December 6th – 10th
by Michal Konecny 09 Dec '21

09 Dec '21

Hi everyone, This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on libera.chat (https://libera.chat/). If you wish to read this in form of a blog post, check the post on Fedora community blog: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/cpe-weekly-update-week-of-december-… # Highlights of the week ## Infrastructure & Release Engineering Goal of this Initiative ----------------------- Purpose of this team is to take care of day to day business regarding CentOS and Fedora Infrastructure and Fedora release engineering work. It’s responsible for services running in Fedora and CentOS infrastructure and preparing things for the new Fedora release (mirrors, mass branching, new namespaces etc.). The ARC (which is a subset of the team) investigates possible initiatives that CPE might take on. Update ------ ### Fedora Infra * Discourse2fedmsg completed and deployed in prod * groups support for oauth2 for discourse put on hold due to a potential upstream solution * Switched to qemu/libvirt from the “Advanced Virt” stack * All staging builders moved to f35, but our fedora messaging plugin is broken in f35 hub. * New bodhi deployment this week ### CentOS Infra including CentOS CI * CentOS Stream 9 [artwork deployed](https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/477) (Kudos to Artwork SIG !) : * https://www.centos.org * https://blog.centos.org * https://lists.centos.org * Meeting[s] to prepare the Community Cage DC move * Identified (and [fixed](https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/551)) small issue for PowerDNS geoip setup for 9-stream * Bussiness as Usual (koji/cbs tags, new mirrors for 7 / 8-stream and 9-stream) ### Release Engineering * epel9 branches are popping up ~520 in the last week * F36 change request reviews are landing in releng tracker * business as usual ## CentOS Stream Goal of this Initiative ----------------------- This initiative is working on CentOS Stream/Emerging RHEL to make this new distribution a reality. The goal of this initiative is to prepare the ecosystem for the new CentOS Stream. Updates ------- * Stream 9 composes were broken over the weekend, the backlog is now clear and a compose was pushed yesterday * Gitlab authentication suffered some effects of the auth.redhat.com migration, we expect this is now resolved * Implementing Content Resolver performance optimisations ## CentOS Duffy CI Goal of this Initiative ----------------------- Duffy is a system within CentOS CI Infra which allows tenants to provision and access bare metal resources of multiple architectures for the purposes of CI testing. We need to add the ability to checkout VMs in CentOS CI in Duffy. We have OpenNebula hypervisor available, and have started developing playbooks which can be used to create VMs using the OpenNebula API, but due to the current state of how Duffy is deployed, we are blocked with new dev work to add the VM checkout functionality. Updates ------- * API endpoints with database connection (finally) * Extended documentation for API endpoints (in progress) * Command-line option to avoid overriding existing database when performing migration * Backend work (started): Background tasks like provisioning nodes, clean up * Endpoint authentication with API key / token pertaining to a certain project / tenant (in progress) ## OSCI – Distrobaker monitoring Goal of this Initiative ----------------------- This initiative is to improve the Distrobaker monitoring to monitor side-tags and module builds. Distrobaker is a service which rebuilds the CentOS 9 Stream Koji builds for RHEL 9 in Brew. Updates ------- * Currently working on adding metrics for the sidetag comparison code. ## EPEL Goal of this initiative ----------------------- Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Linux (OL). EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and will never conflict with or replace packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions. EPEL uses much of the same infrastructure as Fedora, including buildsystem, bugzilla instance, updates manager, mirror manager and more. Updates ------- * [EPEL9 (and EPEL9 Next) launched!](https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/epel-9-is-now-available/) * Already have 501 packages in testing (255 builds, 158 bodhi updates) * [Quickstart documentation](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/#_quickstart) updated * EPEL Steering Committee [decided to standardize](https://pagure.io/epel/issue/133) on {distro}+epel-{version} pattern for mock configs rather than a generic epel-{version} config * centos-stream+epel-9 configs added to mock-core-configs Kindest regards, CPE Team

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releasever does not contain variant as expected
by Marc Dequènes (Duck) 09 Dec '21

09 Dec '21

Quack, (this is a post I made for centos@ on 2021-10-27 and that never made it on the list for some unknown reason; retrying here since it's still current) I'm trying to install CentOS Stream directly without switching from Linux to Stream in our automated install. The changes were straightforward but I was very surprised to get CentOS Linux instead of the expected CentOS Stream. I captured the virt-install call to check if there was any mistake and that's fine: virt-install -n taiste.osci.io --memory=2048,maxmemory=4096 --memballoon virtio --disk bus=virtio,path=/dev/vg_Spritz/taiste.osci.io --vcpus=1,maxvcpus=2 --initrd-inject=/etc/libvirt/kickstarts/taiste.osci.io/ks.cfg --autostart --noautoconsole --watchdog default --arch x86_64 -l http://mirror.rackspace.com/CentOS/8-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/ --network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio --graphics none -x 'net.ifnames=0 inst.ks=file:/ks.cfg ks=file:/ks.cfg console=tty0 console=ttyS0' Our kickstart (ks.cfg) contains: url --mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=BaseOS and that has worked for ages. Digging deeper I found out $releasever only contains the major version without the variant (like "6Server" on RHEL for eg). DNF is using a new variable $stream that breaks compatibility with the past and AFAIK is only available through DNF (but I can't use it in the kickstart for all versions anyway). Since we're using Ansible I can work around that but I was wondering if there was any way to handle this better in a retro-compatible way. Regards. \_o<

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All c9s spec files?
by Miro Hrončok 08 Dec '21

08 Dec '21

Hello, in Fedora, I can get all Rawhide specfiles from one big tarball: https://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/rpm-specs-latest.tar.xz Is there an equivalent of such tarball for CentOS Stream 9? I'd like to check the usage of one of our macros before landing a change. Thanks, -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok

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Board nominations and timeline
by Rich Bowen 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Thank you to everyone who provided nominations for the upcoming board of directors term. We received 11 nominations. Seven of those candidates have accepted the nomination and will be on the ballot. Two have declined and two have been, thus far, completely unresponsive after several attempts to contact them. The nominations are now closed. The sitting directors will consider these nominees, and their acceptance statements, over the coming weeks. The vote will occur in the JANUARY Board meeting, and the new directors will serve in their first meeting in FEBRUARY. References: This process is documented at https://www.centos.org/about/governance/board/ and the current list of directors may be seen at https://git.centos.org/centos/board/blob/master/f/directors/cohorts The history of directors may be seen at https://git.centos.org/centos/board/blob/master/f/directors/history

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c9s vagrant boxes
by Jack Aboutboul 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Hello All, As part of our testing efforts of c9s we put together some vagrant boxes of c9s and we are wondering if there was any interest in us contributing these upstream? Boxes are here: https://app.vagrantup.com/almalinux/boxes/centos-stream-9 and the corresponding sources can be found here: https://github.com/almaLinux/cloud-images/tree/centos9s Thanks, Jack

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De-branding in CentOS Stream 9
by Alex Iribarren 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Hi all, While trying to run the CentOS functional tests on CS9[*], I noticed that several fail because of branding issues. For example, p_httpd/httpd_centos_brand_server_tokens.sh expects the server string to match `Apache.*\ (CentOS)`, when in fact the server line is: Server: Apache/2.4.51 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9) OpenSSL/3.0.0 This got me thinking about how de-branding is supposed to work in CS9. I would guess the usual process would have to be reversed now, where Red Hat would remove the CentOS brand from CS9 packages and add the Red Hat brand for the RHEL 9.0 builds, but clearly this isn't happening yet. I guess this is an oversight? Cheers, Alex [*] I know, I know, but I have to run *something* before you guys release your own functional test suite for CS9!

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CentOS7 krb5-1.15.1-51
by Jacco Ligthart 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

Hi, I noticed that krb5-1.15.1-51 is missing from CentOS7. The previous version is now both in base and in updates. I'm guessing that somehow there has been made a small error, so that #50 is in the updates instead of #51 Jacco

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CPE takeover Fedora social hour - today!
by Vipul Siddharth 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

Hey folks, The Community Platform Engineering team from Red Hat will join us today for the Fedora Social Hour call. This call would be slightly different from usual ones – as this time we won’t be breaking any rules when you talk $work (like always). We will have both, some from management and some engineers (including me) joining the call. If you have any Infra or CPE questions, we would love to talk and answer (what we do, why we do and what we are going to do are just a few examples). When we are out of questions, expect it to look like a general social hour. If you don't know what Fedora Social hour is, check https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/join-us-for-fedora-social-hour-every… Looking forward to seeing a lot of you

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