Re: [CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 extras for alternative arches and Koji workflow.

On 05/08/2017 06:14 PM, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:

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

Any update?

This is partly required for ppc64le and aarch64 as well (I do this in aarch64 as well). Both require, and are built against the newer/sig qemu-kvm-ev, because the upstream RH release builds them against qemu-kvm-rhev rather than the older distro qemu-kvm. There are a number of distro components built against them, so it's needed for repoclosure.