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On Mar 06 00:11, Brian Stinson wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Now that we have SIG Content in the /altarch directories for CentOS 7 on the
> mirrors, we need to come with some requirements and recommendations for dealing
> with the different locations.
>
> tl;dr The current thinking is to add the following snippet in the %post of
> centos-release and release to all of the arches. This will set a yum var to the
> correct content location when a new system gets installed:
>
>     `uname -m | grep -q 'x86_64'  && echo 'centos' >/etc/yum/vars/contentdir || echo 'altarch' >/etc/yum/vars/contentdir`
>
> Here's the start of a proposal from the SIG perspective
>
> ## Requirements:
>
> - The same noarch binary RPM *must* be distributable to the Extras
>   repo for each architecture
>
> - The centos-release-<SIG> packages *must* require centos-release
>
>
> ## New Recommendations for creating a centos-release file:
>
> - A yum variable called 'contentdir' will be populated with the toplevel
>   directory for SIGs to use
>
> 1.) Modify baseurls in the SIG repo files to look like the following (using
> openstack-queens as an example):
>
>
>  [centos-openstack-queens]
>  name=CentOS-7 - OpenStack queens
>  baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/$contentdir/cloud/$basearch/openstack-queens/
>  gpgcheck=1
>  enabled=1
>  gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Cloud
>  exclude=sip,PyQt4
>
>
> ## Discussion
>
> I'd like to hear thoughts, additions, and subtractions here before we update
> the SIGGuide and rework centos-release.
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> Brian Stinson
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To be clear,

This is a PROPOSAL at this stage, we haven't actually made any changes
to centos-release yet. At this point if you're actively doing work
relying on the new variable, it will break!

Also thank you to the folks up-thread who pointed out that there was a
typo in the repo entry. mirror.centos.org should use http://

- --Brian
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