On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote:

On 01/20/2010 01:58 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:

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Is there an ETA for this repository yet?

.. soon

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A status update would be appreciated, please.

I'm working on getting the layout for updateinfo.xml - help along those lines would be good.

Bonus points for coming up with python code that is callable as a module which can generate that. Have not looked at it yet, but next in queue is update_md.py included in yum. That might be all thats needed, but if someone wants to look see - please do so and confirm.

there is python code in yum which does generate it - but only out of already existent update info objects.

but the basic structure is there.

or you can look in the bodhi code and grab code from there, too.

-sv

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Mark Rappoport wrote:

  > Bonus points for coming up with python code that is callable as a module
  > which can generate that. Have not looked at it yet, but next in queue is
  > update_md.py included in yum. That might be all thats needed, but if
  > someone wants to look see - please do so and confirm.

Confirmed -- I'm working to implement a small proof of concept + a tiny patch to update_md.py.

come by #yum on freenode if you want to talk about your patch

-sv

2010/1/20 Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org:

On 01/20/2010 01:58 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:

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Is there an ETA for this repository yet?

.. soon

Great (he says, whilst thinking about the hmaccalc package).

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A status update would be appreciated, please.

I'm working on getting the layout for updateinfo.xml - help along those lines would be good.

Bonus points for coming up with python code that is callable as a module which can generate that. Have not looked at it yet, but next in queue is update_md.py included in yum. That might be all thats needed, but if someone wants to look see - please do so and confirm.

Hmm. I'm not fluent in python. To me (as I date back to when there were really only two common Unix scripting languages, Steve Bourne's shell & the C-shell) it's a read-only language . . . Perhaps it would be best for A.N.Other to put up {her|his} hand and say {she|he} will assist you, KB.

So, readers of this m/l, who will be first to raise their hand (for the good of the CentOS-5 user base and to take some load off Karanbir)?

Alan.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Mark Rappoport centos@mark.org.il wrote:

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Alan Bartlett ajb@elrepo.org wrote:

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2010/1/20 Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org:

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On 01/20/2010 01:58 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:

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Is there an ETA for this repository yet?

So, readers of this m/l, who will be first to raise their hand (for

the good of the CentOS-5 user base and to take some load off Karanbir)?

I can assist with Python.

Karan, can we discuss this on IRC or off-list?

Ah, Mark, perhaps this is a good opportunity to introduce yourself to the list (as suggested by KB on IRC).

Mark, IRC nick "doot", a python guru, fast problem resolver <- is this you ? :-D

Akemi / toracat

Am 21.01.10 17:00, schrieb Mark Rappoport:

Well, I'll do just that -- Mark Rappoport, 24 y/o, Linux user since age 13. Dabbled in pretty much everything, barring kernel drivers and taming wild llamas.

The latter will come in handy here.

Ralph

On 27 January 2010 13:02, Alan Bartlett ajb@elrepo.org wrote:

2010/1/27 Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org:

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There is a .repo file here for the c5-ft-test:

http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/CentOS-5-ft-Testing.repo

We are going to start building the updateinfo metadata around this repo and should have something usable by early next week.

Thanks KB. I shall try to give it a look sometime in the coming 24 hours.

Just a quick note to confirm that everything appears to be o.k. based on my tests.

Comments from others will, I know, be appreciated.

Alan.

Ned Slider wrote:

Karanbir Singh wrote:

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Hi,

all CentOS-5-FT pending updates are now in the c5-testing repo, either included in the main testing repo ( so you get all testing packages ), or in its own c5-ft-testing repo, which only gives you the c5-ft packages. There is a .repo file here for the c5-ft-test:

http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/CentOS-5-ft-Testing.repo

We are going to start building the updateinfo metadata around this repo and should have something usable by early next week.

Hi KB,

Does the filesystem package no longer require CentOS branding changes to be rolled in?

$ rpm -q filesystem filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos.x86_64

$ rpm -q --changelog filesystem | more

• Mon Mar 09 2009 Karanbir Singh kbsingh@centos.org - 2.4.0-2.el5.centos

• Roll in CentOS Branding

Thanks.

Looks like pirut still needs it's Requires for rhn components removed too.

error: Failed dependencies: rhn-setup-gnome is needed by pirut-1.3.28-17.el5.noarch

Thanks.

On 8 February 2010 18:14, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:

On 28/01/10 14:33, Ned Slider wrote:

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Does the filesystem package no longer require CentOS branding changes to be rolled in? $ rpm -q filesystem filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos.x86_64

Will look at that.

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Looks like pirut still needs it's Requires for rhn components removed too. error: Failed dependencies:          rhn-setup-gnome is needed by pirut-1.3.28-17.el5.noarch

And this as well.

thanks for acting as issue catcher, its good to know that stuff I farkup is going to be caught along the line :)

btw, the major point of getting these packages into a repo was to work on the code that allows us to produce a package-db api. After a lot of feature creep and de-creep there is something that should mostly work. I'll post more details on that in the next few days.

Also, by this weekend there should be yum-security working capability in this ft-testing repo. I'll post an email here when thats in place.

Silently and stealthily, he who also uses the alias of burakkucat [1], approaches this thread and gives it a gentle bump to request an update of the status of this issue.

Alan.

[1] http://www.centos.toracat.org/ajb/burakkucat.jpg

On 9 March 2010 19:42, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:

On 03/08/2010 06:22 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:

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Silently and stealthily, he who also uses the alias of burakkucat [1], approaches this thread and gives it a gentle bump to request an update of the status of this issue.

.. making progress silently and stealthily :)

we should have something online soon

Excellent news. Thanks for the update. ;-)

Alan.

On 03/30/2010 09:03 AM, David Hrbáč wrote:

Dne 9.3.2010 20:42, Karanbir Singh napsal(a):

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.. making progress silently and stealthily :)

we should have something online soon

Any news on progress?

I've not had the time to work on this the last couple of days, but it needs a change in the way I do the c5 errata announcements. And I'm not sure how many scripts will break out there due to this change.

So considering rolling this into the 5.5 release. Which, if rumour mills are to be believed, should be released upstream sometime today. Just going by the number of bz's being zapped upstream in the last few hours, might be a fair guess.

- KB

On 03/30/2010 02:42 PM, Dag Wieers wrote:

RHEL 5.5 is available on RHN.

nice.

Now we wait for the ftp sites to get populated with the srpms!

So when can we expect CentOS 5.5 ? :-)

soon :)

On 25 July 2010 19:24, Alan Bartlett ajb@elrepo.org wrote:

On 30 March 2010 10:20, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:

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On 03/30/2010 09:03 AM, David Hrbáč wrote:

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Dne 9.3.2010 20:42, Karanbir Singh napsal(a):

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.. making progress silently and stealthily :)

we should have something online soon

Any news on progress?

I've not had the time to work on this the last couple of days, but it needs a change in the way I do the c5 errata announcements. And I'm not sure how many scripts will break out there due to this change.

So considering rolling this into the 5.5 release. Which, if rumour mills are to be believed, should be released upstream sometime today. Just going by the number of bz's being zapped upstream in the last few hours, might be a fair guess.

Four months on -- just a gentle bump on this thread to ensure that neither too much dust collects on top nor too many barnacles attach down below.  ;-)

After the passage of another month -- bump! Is fasttrack for C-5 ever to appear?

What still needs to be done? Without knowing the latter, it is impossible for anyone to (offer to) help.

Alan.

On 2 September 2010 15:03, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:

On 09/02/2010 02:55 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:

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After the passage of another month -- bump! Is fasttrack for C-5 ever to appear?

I hope so.

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What still needs to be done? Without knowing the latter, it is impossible for anyone to (offer to) help.

The consolidated build/test stuff needs to be in place first. We're working on it.

Thanks for the progress report. Appreciated.

Alan.

On 12/03/2010 12:44 PM, David Hrbáč wrote:

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We are going to start building the updateinfo metadata around this repo and should have something usable by early next week.

What's the status of updateinfo.xml being provided for C5 (now for C6 too).

I was fairly confident we could extract and build this from the changelog's of released packages, but thats not going to happen since they are not very consistend and dont even go back to the earlier releases. eg in 5.[0123] quite a few pkgs dont carry this metadata at all.

So, short of someone finding a way to get this info; sitting down and typing it all up, it looks hard to get going.

With C6 however, all pkgs so far seem to have this metadata in the changelog's. So its looking a lot better.

- KB

On 12/03/2010 02:21 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:

The way to get the info is to use the package VCS check-ins, not %changelog from *.spec or --queryformat. There are too many issues

Red Hat might not be very willing to let us look at their vcs backend :)

- KB