The four-week release of CentOS Atomic Host is set to consist of CentOS core plus a set newer "atomic" packages[1], built for CentOS in the CBS, with versions tracking what's in Fedora Latest Stable (currently F22, soon to be F23).

In the downstream rebuild version of CentOS Atomic Host, these "atomic" packages come from the CentOS Extras repository, built from upstream RHEL AH code.

## Atomic pkgs in the CBS, today and tomorrow

There are versions of all/most of the "atomic" pkgs in the CBS (in the atomic7-testing and virt7-common-candidate tags), but which versions, and when they're updated, and where they live, isn't governed by any set process. It may make sense to add a new tag specifically for the 4wk release.

### Here's a rough process proposal:

1. We pay attention to upstream releases of "atomic" packages, and pay attention to the available versions of those packages in Fedora latest testing. If the packages in Fedora latest testing are older than the currently released upstream versions, we ping the Fedora package maintainer about updating to the latest released version.

2. We help move Fedora packages from testing to stable by testing them and giving them karma.

3. We take the stable "atomic" packages from Fedora latest and rebuild them for CentOS 7 in the CBS, using a tag for this purpose. We automate this if, possible.

4. We feed the repo backing this CAH-4wk tag into our 4wk/devel buildscript (see https://github.com/CentOS/sig-atomic-buildscripts/tree/devel), build repo/images, test those images, images/trees that pass tests become our four-week releases, released, presumably, every four weeks or so. Again, automating as many steps as possible.

[1] The "atomic" packages are:

docker kubernetes etcd flannel cloud-init ostree atomic cockpit

Finding the latest stable or testing version of a pkg in Fedora. For docker (replace pkg name as needed):

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=docker&status=stable https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=docker&status=testing

Let's discuss this here on the list and at next week's atomic sig meeting.

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Jason Brooks Red Hat Open Source and Standards

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