devel March 2022

devel@lists.centos.org

26 participants
25 discussions

forums + portal for {lang}.centos.org sites
by Karanbir Singh 16 Aug '24

16 Aug '24

Hi, Earlier in the evening today Ralph, Fabian and I had a chat about the present state of the language subsites. This email sort of summarises the main issue ( s/w ). We seem to have run into a slight technical hitch with punbb/fluxbb. They dont support LDAP as a backend. And we had decided a few months back that all new rollouts must have ldap backend so we can rollin CentOS-DS / openldap based backend. So we need to look at alternatives, and since the primary focus of these international sites is going be forums : Here is a shortlist ( if there is anything else that people are aware of, please add to this list ) - phpBB - SMF - Fudforum - phorum - fluxbb Requirements: - Must be able to scale ( couple of hundred thousand msgs ) - Must be able to handle ldap auth ( if it cant, whats involved in writing the ldap-auth portion ) - Must address the specific requirements raised by the present www.centos.org forum users ( Can you please fill this section in ? ) - Must support all languages we need ( pure utf8 support would be good ) - Secure - Skin'able Nice to have: - Capable of running multiple instances from a single deployment - responsive community :D Things we will need to do: - Decide on what s/w to use. - Give the ArtWork people enough time to get the look & feel sorted. - Migrate newbb forums from www.centos.org to $system ( hey, english is a language too :D ). - Migrate fr.centos.org into the final s/w - setup {de/es/ja/it/pt_br}.centos.org Actions: Ralph and Fabian are going to work on setting up a test ldap server, once that is online we will then start by installing into our test-vm-farm the various s/w to eval them. If anyone would like to help, please feel free to jump right in. I'll setup a wiki page for this issue, which might be a good place to track progress. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

22 81

Few questions on cloud images
by Pino Toscano 06 Jun '23

06 Jun '23

Hello, I have few questions related to the cloud images provides for c8s and c9s, i.e.: - https://cloud.centos.org/centos/8-stream/x86_64/images/ - https://cloud.centos.org/centos/9-stream/x86_64/images/ 1) I see the c9s images are regularly updated, while the c8s images not; is this wanted, or simply a mistake/miss somewhere? If so, will they be kept up-to-date just like the c9s images? 2) are the Vagrant images there officially supported? Let's say you use one, and find a bug; then check on a "classic" installation (baremetal/VM), and the bug isn't there; can users report problems in those cases? 3) would it be possible to have either unversioned or "-latest" symlinks for the latest versions of all the files (i.e. images, checksums, etc)? This way, it will be much easier for users to fetch the latest versions with no need to change URLs frequently. Of course, the assumption is that users of this are always willing to use the latest version. Thanks! -- Pino Toscano

7 14

Proposal: CentOS Public Board Meetings
by Rich Bowen 07 Jan '23

07 Jan '23

In January of 2021, the CentOS Board of Directors opened our monthly meetings to all SIG chairs, in a first step towards more transparent governance. We wanted to see how the larger audience changed the meeting dynamics, if at all, as well as welcoming a broader pool of voices. We are now ready for the second part of this process. Starting in the August meeting, we will be inviting the entire CentOS community to attend these meetings. Due to the nature of the Internet, we won’t be simply publishing the meeting URL, as this often leads to disruptive behavior in meetings, as I am sure many of you have experienced. Rather, in the week before the meeting, we’ll send, to this list, a way to request an invitation to the meeting. In this way, we hope to limit the incidence of such disruptions, while also making the meeting available to anyone who wishes to attend. We will be working on the rules of engagement for these meetings, but they will be, at minimum: * Wait to be recognized by the Chair before speaking * Respect the Chair when told your time to speak is over - this will allow us to remain on agenda, and complete the meetings in the allotted time * In the event that there are Board-confidential topics, these will be put at the end of the meeting, in Executive Session, and guests will be asked to leave. We hope to minimize these items, but they do sometimes happen. The most common scenarios in which this may happen are personnel issues, or information that Red Hat wishes to share with the Board, but is not yet public. * Muting of participants, or, in extreme situations, ejection from the meeting, is at the sole discretion of the Chair. * Meetings will be recorded, and published to YouTube (possibly with edits/redactions, as approved by the Directors). Thus, by joining the meeting you consent to have your presence at the meeting, and anything you say during the meeting, made public. Because there will seldom be time for Q&A during the meeting itself, we plan to add a post-meeting IRC office hours session for followup questions. This will probably be scheduled for a week after the board meeting, to allow time to publish meeting minutes We welcome your comments about the above proposal, and thank you all for your patience as we implement these changes to our governance process.

8 27

RHEL moving to issues.redhat.com only long term
by Josh Boyer 20 May '22

20 May '22

Hi Fedora, CentOS, and EPEL Communities! As part of our continued 3 year major Red Hat Enterprise Linux release cadence, RHEL 9 development is starting to wrap up with the spring 2022 release coming soon. That means planning for the next release will start in earnest in the very near future. As some of you may know, Red Hat has been using both Bugzilla and Jira via issues.redhat.com for RHEL development for several years. Our intention is to move to using issues.redhat.com only for the major RHEL releases after RHEL 9. What does this mean for Fedora and CentOS? This discussion is in part to figure that out. Based on some very brief analysis, the following should hold: - RHEL customers should continue to file support cases through the Red Hat Customer portal, which will remain consistent regardless of the backend tooling used. - There is no imminent retirement of the Red Hat Bugzilla instance being planned at this time. RHEL 7, 8, and 9 will continue to use bugzilla in some form and RHEL 9 has a very long lifecycle. - Fedora Linux and EPEL have their own Bugzilla product families and are not directly impacted in their own workflows by the choice to use only issues.redhat.com for RHEL. - There will be impacts on existing documentation that provide guidance on requesting things from RHEL in various places like EPEL. We will be happy to help adjust these. - CentOS Stream contribution and bug reporting workflows will be adjusted to use issues.redhat.com instead of bugzilla in the relevant places. This should apply to all versions of CentOS Stream for a unified contributor workflow. This will happen gradually as we discover the best workflow to use. If there are other impacts that you can think of, please raise them on this thread. We’d like to ensure we’re covering as much as possible as this rolls out. josh

7 14

Decommissioning of CentOS Stream 8 source-git branches
by Tomas Tomecek 13 May '22

13 May '22

Hello, we would like to announce our plan to decommission and remove the c8s branches of the CentOS Stream source-git repositories. This also means the removal of any repository from the gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src namespace which is left without a branch. Stream 9 content will not be affected. As you might remember, these are the source-git repositories produced by unpacking the c8s branches from CentOS Stream 8 dist-git, and making the resulting content available at gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src. We took a look at the utilization of this content during 2021, based on the GitLab data and found out that no one from the community has used these repositories to contribute to CentOS Stream 8. The only exception is the kernel repository [1], we will keep that one up. Please let us know if you find these repositories useful or are part of your routine. Our focus for the future is to deliver a consistent source-git workflow for Fedora and CentOS Stream under the umbrella of Fedora source-git SIG [2]. [1] https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/kernel/centos-stream-8 [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Source-git Tomas

1 2

Experimentation with the centos namespace on gitlab
by Brian Stinson 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Hi Folks! We had a thread a few weeks ago about the usage of the “centos” namespace on gitlab: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2022-February/120216.html The authentication angle is progressing up to the point that we would like to open up the opportunity for a couple of SIGs to onboard with gitlab and help us round the edges. The idea being to open this up to all the SIGs interested in a few weeks once we have clearer documentations and guidelines around the usage of GitLab. We are currently working on that set of best-practices that SIGs which would like to use the centos namespace on gitlab will need to agree and follow. If you are interested, please let us know (just not everyone at once!) :) Thanks, Brian

6 5

repomd.xml.asc outdated for extras
by Leon Fauster 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

In some kind related to https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/550 repomd.xml and repomd.xml.asc out of "sync" for http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/extras/x86_64/os/repodata/ [TXT] repomd.xml 2022-03-28 13:52 2.9K [TXT] repomd.xml.asc 2022-03-24 00:40 811 I believe that a repo sync would sync the entire directory. So, the origin is already providing a signed file that is outdated, thought ... -- Leon

2 2

announcing "extras-common" repo for Stream 8 , managed by SIGs
by Fabian Arrotin 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

Following what was already implement for CentOS Stream 9 (see the https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2021-November/098666.html thread), we have also created new tags on cbs.centos.org to let SIG build/push their centos-release-* pkg (containing their public gpg key, and .repo files for dnf/yum) for CentOS Stream 8. While the extras8s-extras-common-{candidate,testing,release} tags were all created some time ago (and some SIGs already tried this for -testing tag, with pkgs landing on https://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/8-stream/extras/), the -release tag itself was still locked, until the same mechanism that was implemented for Stream 9 would be working for Stream 8. Now that newer centos-gpg-keys-8-6.el8.noarch and centos-stream-repos- 8-6.el8.noarch packages are available in CentOS Stream 8 BaseOS, that means that we have now unlocked the extras8s-extras-common-release tag and so SIGs can from now on just build and tag their centos-release* packages directly through cbs and not having to ask a CentOS Stream core member to just rebuild it through distro koji (aka https://koji.mbox.centos.org) PS : as you can see the /8-stream/extras/<basearch>/os/ repo is still there,and still available on every installed CentOS 8s, but is also "frozen" from now on. The new extras-common will be populated with new builds coming from cbs.centos.org koji exclusively (as it's the case for CentOS Stream 9) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab

1 0

Announcement: livesys-scripts v0.1.0
by Neal Gompa 28 Mar '22

28 Mar '22

Hello all, Over the past few months, I've been working on building new image build descriptions for the CentOS Hyperscale SIG and Fedora Cloud WG so we can migrate away from Oz/ImageFactory[0]. One detour that I took as part of doing this is an attempt to simplify the creation of live media. The tool I'm using for the Hyperscale SIG live media for CentOS Stream 9 is called kiwi[1] and it notably does not support the same script merging+inheritance model that Lorax[2] and livecd-tools[3] support that we rely on for correctly assembling the livesys init script (!!!) used to bootstrap the live environment correctly. I took a day to analyze the scripts across all the live media we have right now and made an initial attempt to convert them into more regular scripts that are invoked from systemd services. The result is livesys-scripts, which just landed in Fedora and EPEL 8/9. The project sources for livesys-scripts is here: https://pagure.io/livesys-scripts The livesys-scripts package should be agnostic to the image build tool. If you're previously relying on assembling the init script (e.g. fedora-kickstarts), the way to switch over is: 1. Delete the init script assembly logic from your kickstarts 2. Add livesys-scripts to %packages section 3. Enable livesys.service and livesys-late.service in services stanza 4. If your live ISO has a desktop environment in it, set livesys_session in /etc/sysconfig/livesys to load the correct subscript in %post. (The choices currently are: gnome, kde, cinnamon, mate, xfce, lxqt, lxde, soas, i3) If more desktops need to be supported, contribution via pull request is welcome! :) The intent of this is to make it easier to support building Fedora(ish) live media across a wider range of tools and also to synchronize what it does with improvements in dracut over time. The livesys-scripts are old and much of its functionality belongs in dracut itself. This is something that will hopefully be corrected in the near future... So, give it a try and let me know how it goes! :) [0]: https://imgfac.org/ [1]: http://osinside.github.io/kiwi/ [2]: https://weldr.io/lorax/ [3]: https://github.com/livecd-tools/livecd-tools -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!

1 0

CPE Weekly Update – Week of March 21st – 25th
by Michal Konecny 25 Mar '22

25 Mar '22

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-march-21s… # 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. Link to planning board: https://zlopez.fedorapeople.org/I&R-23-03-2022.pdf Update ------ ### Fedora Infra * Fixed cert generation in ipa staging (needed upgrade run) * Found problem with proxies that stopped processing, was an apache bug. Downgraded back to previous stable version. * Good progress on testing ansible upgrade. Successfully run playbooks with python3.8/ansible-core-2.12.3. * Usual business. ### CentOS Infra including CentOS CI * Kicked off work for the ansible [2.9.x => 5.x](https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/496) (good progress so far) * WIP : new lookaside structure and [building from gitlab](https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/645) (working but need now just last steps like centpkg-minimal) * Last [centos-repos](https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/698) should enable the extras-common repo for SIGs (autonomous from koji.mbox.centos.org koji builds) * Multiple 1:1 with phsmoura for infra onboarding * Working on [image-build issue](https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/708) as first ticket * Bussiness as usual: new koji tags , projects on git.centos.org/rpms ### Release Engineering * F36 Beta 1.4 * Work on SCM request automation should be finished this week - [PR](https://pagure.io/fedora-infra/toddlers/pull-request/93) ## 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 ------- * Troubleshooting CCCC service issues * Build & pushing Extras repos for CentOS Stream 8, once built, tags will be available * Content resolver can now differentiate between warnings (when a workload lists packages that don't exist) and failures (actual dependency problems). * DC move went well, all systems operational again ## 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 ------- * Focusing on documentation this week https://github.com/CentOS/duffy/issues/253 ## Bodhi Goal of this Initiative ----------------------- This initiative is to separate Bodhi into multiple sub packages, fix integration and unit tests in CI, fix dependency management and automate part of the release process. Read ARC team findings in detail at: https://fedora-arc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bodhi/index.html Updates ------- * Got rid of the DeclEnumType warning with SQLAlchemy 1.4+ * Use namespace packages in accordance with current recommendations (avoiding needless .pth files) * Copy severity when obsoleting a security update * Updated Vagrant docs * Dependency management (ongoing) * Added procedure for pushing the snapshots to staging ## 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 up to 2187 source packages (increase of 39 from last week) * Notable EPEL9 packages now available: * [KDE Plasma](https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedo… * openvpn and NetworkManager-openvpn * Several ansible collections (general, mysql, rabbitmq, podman) Kindest regards, CPE Team

1 0

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

devel March 2022