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On 06/14/2014 08:00 AM, centos-devel-request@centos.org wrote:
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:22:07 -0700 From: Jeff Sheltren jeff@tag1consulting.com Subject: [CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 Public QA Release To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." centos-devel@centos.org Message-ID: CANcQTLpGzGE-cECueNTD80oseeXp8F18hR4O73V37mSsZ-XOCQ@mail.gmail.com
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We are happy to announce the immediate availability of the first CentOS 7 QA Release.
!!! This is a QA release only and not the final CentOS 7 release !!!
In the past, CentOS QA testing has been performed by a small group of people within the CentOS community. We are happy that we are now able to open this up to the wider community to get early feedback and bug reports prior to the 7 release.
CentOS 7 QA release is available for download at:
We are first populating individual RPMs in their respective build directories. Once we have a working base install tree, it will be made available at the same URL.
Please note the following: - This is NOT the final CentOS 7 release. Packages, ISOs, and install media *will* change between this release and the final 7 release. - The packages posted at the above URL will likely be updated in-place before the final release. - Things may be broken! Don't install this on your production servers. Consider it a beta/preview release. - Help us make the 7 release better by reporting bugs at http://bugs.centos.org - This is not an officially supported release. If you have questions, aren't sure if you've found a bug, etc., please ask in #centos-devel on Freenode, or email the centos-devel email list. - Packages in the QA release are *not* GPG-signed. The final 7 release will contain GPG-signed packages as usual. - Upgrading from the QA release to the final 7 release may be possible, but it's not supported or documented in any way. Expect that you will need to re-install when 7 final is released.
We appreciate any and all bug reports at http://bugs.centos.org (please also check upstream bugzilla.redhat.com and link to those bugs when filing a new CentOS issue), and assistance with the "Branding Hunt" (see http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2014-June/010411.html).
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/...
contains a list of known issues at the time of the upstream release.
Currently, we only have RPM packages online, but will be bringing installable media online as soon as we have it ready.
Again, this is NOT a final release. It may harm nearby puppies, kittens, or other (cute) animals and/or servers. This is our first attempt at opening up CentOS to the wider community, so please bear with us as we work through any issues that arise with the process. As always, feedback is welcome on the email list or on IRC (#centos-devel on Freenode).
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Dear Devs: Looks like a great lot of work, so thanks for the effort. As a Fedora Testor I am puzzled somewhat though. Is there available reading material and such as how I would go about using these rpm with a qemu/kvm for testing without having the installer available yet? Obviously I can test the install media when it exists just like I do for Fedora, but using these trees of rpms is a new skill I am hoping to add. Don't want to bog anyone down with explaining it in detail, as I don't mind reading and teaching myself, just need pointed where to look.
Sincerely, Bob Lightfoot, Fedora Project QA Team Member & Centos User
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On 14/06/14 14:28, Bob Lightfoot wrote:
On 06/14/2014 08:00 AM, centos-devel-request@centos.org wrote:
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:22:07 -0700 From: Jeff Sheltren jeff@tag1consulting.com Subject: [CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 Public QA Release To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." centos-devel@centos.org Message-ID: CANcQTLpGzGE-cECueNTD80oseeXp8F18hR4O73V37mSsZ-XOCQ@mail.gmail.com
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We are happy to announce the immediate availability of the first CentOS 7 QA Release.
!!! This is a QA release only and not the final CentOS 7 release !!!
In the past, CentOS QA testing has been performed by a small group of people within the CentOS community. We are happy that we are now able to open this up to the wider community to get early feedback and bug reports prior to the 7 release.
CentOS 7 QA release is available for download at:
We are first populating individual RPMs in their respective build directories. Once we have a working base install tree, it will be made available at the same URL.
Please note the following: - This is NOT the final CentOS 7 release. Packages, ISOs, and install media *will* change between this release and the final 7 release. - The packages posted at the above URL will likely be updated in-place before the final release. - Things may be broken! Don't install this on your production servers. Consider it a beta/preview release. - Help us make the 7 release better by reporting bugs at http://bugs.centos.org - This is not an officially supported release. If you have questions, aren't sure if you've found a bug, etc., please ask in #centos-devel on Freenode, or email the centos-devel email list. - Packages in the QA release are *not* GPG-signed. The final 7 release will contain GPG-signed packages as usual. - Upgrading from the QA release to the final 7 release may be possible, but it's not supported or documented in any way. Expect that you will need to re-install when 7 final is released.
We appreciate any and all bug reports at http://bugs.centos.org (please also check upstream bugzilla.redhat.com and link to those bugs when filing a new CentOS issue), and assistance with the "Branding Hunt" (see http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2014-June/010411.html).
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/...
contains a list of known issues at the time of the upstream release.
Currently, we only have RPM packages online, but will be bringing installable media online as soon as we have it ready.
Again, this is NOT a final release. It may harm nearby puppies, kittens, or other (cute) animals and/or servers. This is our first attempt at opening up CentOS to the wider community, so please bear with us as we work through any issues that arise with the process. As always, feedback is welcome on the email list or on IRC (#centos-devel on Freenode).
Thanks, and enjoy the release! -Jeff Sheltren on behalf of the CentOS QA Team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20140613/361ee8dd...
Dear Devs: Looks like a great lot of work, so thanks for the effort. As a Fedora Testor I am puzzled somewhat though. Is there available reading material and such as how I would go about using these rpm with a qemu/kvm for testing without having the installer available yet? Obviously I can test the install media when it exists just like I do for Fedora, but using these trees of rpms is a new skill I am hoping to add. Don't want to bog anyone down with explaining it in detail, as I don't mind reading and teaching myself, just need pointed where to look.
Sincerely, Bob Lightfoot, Fedora Project QA Team Member & Centos User
As explained above, and (edited) blog post (http://seven.centos.org/2014/06/centos-7-public-qa-release) : - - there is actually no installable tree that you can install from scratch (that's been produced, so stay tuned) - - some people anticipated the el7 release and started to test new features by downloading the el7beta/el7rc ISO (when they were available, not the case anymore) so those people could just point yum to those centos 7 "Rawhide" repositories , update, install packages, and give feedback.
Cheers,
- -- Fabian Arrotin gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab
On 06/14/2014 02:33 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
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On 14/06/14 14:28, Bob Lightfoot wrote:
Dear Devs: Looks like a great lot of work, so thanks for the effort. As a Fedora Testor I am puzzled somewhat though. Is there available reading material and such as how I would go about using these rpm with a qemu/kvm for testing without having the installer available yet? Obviously I can test the install media when it exists just like I do for Fedora, but using these trees of rpms is a new skill I am hoping to add. Don't want to bog anyone down with explaining it in detail, as I don't mind reading and teaching myself, just need pointed where to look.
Sincerely, Bob Lightfoot, Fedora Project QA Team Member & Centos User
As explained above, and (edited) blog post (http://seven.centos.org/2014/06/centos-7-public-qa-release) :
- there is actually no installable tree that you can install from
scratch (that's been produced, so stay tuned)
- some people anticipated the el7 release and started to test new
features by downloading the el7beta/el7rc ISO (when they were available, not the case anymore) so those people could just point yum to those centos 7 "Rawhide" repositories , update, install packages, and give feedback.
I have ISO of first RHEL 7 beta on my HDD. Am I allowed to post a link to it so others can download it and use it?
On 06/14/2014 01:28 PM, Bob Lightfoot wrote:
Looks like a great lot of work, so thanks for the effort. As a
Fedora Testor I am puzzled somewhat though. Is there available reading material and such as how I would go about using these rpm with a qemu/kvm for testing without having the installer available yet? Obviously I can test the install media when it exists just like I do for Fedora, but using these trees of rpms is a new skill I am hoping to add. Don't want to bog anyone down with explaining it in detail, as I don't mind reading and teaching myself, just need pointed where to look.
we also spend quite a bit of time looking at and working with the rpms themselves to make sure they built ok, carry the right metadata, and then work on the branding stuff - ideally that, and migration paths from 6 to 7 are what we'd be expecting people to be consuming and testing here.
- KB
On 14 June 2014 09:22, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
On 06/14/2014 01:28 PM, Bob Lightfoot wrote:
Looks like a great lot of work, so thanks for the effort. As a
Fedora Testor I am puzzled somewhat though. Is there available reading material and such as how I would go about using these rpm with a qemu/kvm for testing without having the installer available yet? Obviously I can test the install media when it exists just like I do for Fedora, but using these trees of rpms is a new skill I am hoping to add. Don't want to bog anyone down with explaining it in detail, as I don't mind reading and teaching myself, just need pointed where to look.
we also spend quite a bit of time looking at and working with the rpms themselves to make sure they built ok, carry the right metadata, and then work on the branding stuff - ideally that, and migration paths from 6 to 7 are what we'd be expecting people to be consuming and testing here.
Here is an idea from what I did for the CentOS-5 days. Install the Fedora-19 with a minimal set of packages. Try and update the OS from the CentOS tree and see if that works.
Look for packages that were in Fedora 19 minimal and not in the CentOS tree and see if they can be removed. If they can't be then record that as "cruft".
Reboot and see if that works. If it does then use that mostly CentOS-6.9901 as your initial image to run from and begin testing more packages from there.