On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:17 PM, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab@centos.org> wrote:

On 15/03/17 16:58, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 15/03/17 09:28, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>
>> So my understanding is that the problem relies on the fact that there
>> isn't even a policy around Extras repository now. So it's up to the
>> people allowed to build/sign/push to know what they'll add in Extras,
>> and only in the arches they care about.
>
> https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories has a
> definition for the Extras repos. on C7 it should include what is
> upstream in the Extras/ repos ( provided we are able to build it ), and
> other things that are needed sometimes to build content in base / updates.
>
> In addition to this, Extras should contain all centos-release-* files
> from the SIG's.
>
> The only other content that should make it into Extras should be content
> vetted by the core sig, considered fundamental to user experience or
> tooling for user experience. ie. a fairly high barrier to entry.
>
> Does that give us enough policy wording for Extras ? Do we have
> exceptions we need to work through ?
>

Sounds good. So with that definition in mind, how can we be sure that
Extras is then built/distributed in parallel for all arches, so that
then it can be safely enabled within CBS ?

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Adding here notes I sent in a different thread, for reference.

I'm facing some discrepancies in repositories structure for ppc64le.

In x86_64 qemu-kvm-ev is shipped within 

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/virt/x86_64/kvm-common/

which is the path I was expecting. Now, looking at ppc64le I see it shipped within:

http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/extras/ppc64le/Packages/

and being extras enabled by default it overrides qemu-kvm shipped by core os.

Can we at least replicate the same structure between 

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7 and http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7 ?

next, I see cockpit available for x86_64 in

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/

but it's missing in 

http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/extras/ppc64le/Packages/

I see cockpit in fedora ppc64le: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=869569

so it should be possible to get it on centos as well.

Can you please build it?

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