[Arm-dev] updates status

[Fabian Arrotin]

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On 13/01/16 12:35, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On 13/01/16 06:15, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>> On 01/13/2016 06:24 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 01/06/2016 08:54 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
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>>>> On 06/01/16 14:46, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>>> I see that there are no updates available since the build.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I hope that soon we will be getting updates.  It is one
>>>>> thing to put up a simple web server.  For my DNS server, I
>>>>> want to know I am getting somewhat regular bind updates.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Also as I previously mentioned I have found programs that
>>>>> are not in the base like spamassasin.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The bigger project is getting activity on epel for arm so
>>>>> we can do a decent mail server.
>>>>> 
>>>>> thanks!
>>>> Are we missing updates ? Afaik we're up2date with updates.
>>>> The only newer packages that appeared for x86_64 si are 
>>>> kernel/grub2, which we don't use.
>>>> 
>>>> For specific packages missing from 
>>>> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7.2.1511/os/armhfp/ ,
>>>> reaons can be that : - - package failed to build - - package
>>>> built succesfully, but depends itself on failed package[s]
>>>> 
>>>> Dont forget that , for repoclosure, all built package but 
>>>> having deps on missing packages, weren't included in the os 
>>>> repository pushed to mirror.centos.org
>>>> 
>>>> For Spamassassin, I see that it built for C.7.1503 : 
>>>> http://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/c7-pass-1/spamassassin/3.4.0-1.el7/armv7hl/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 
So now you can chase after the missing Requires: pkgs, see
>>>> what's the build issue, and propose a fix/patch ;-)
>>> 
>>> # yum install spamassassin Loaded plugins: fastestmirror base |
>>> 3.6 kB 00:00 epel | 2.9 kB 00:00 extras | 2.9 kB 00:00 updates 
>>> | 2.9 kB 00:00 (1/2): extras/7/armhfp/primary_db |  11 kB 00:06
>>> (2/2): updates/7/armhfp/primary_db | 133 kB 00:07 Determining
>>> fastest mirrors No package spamassassin available. Error:
>>> Nothing to do
>>> 
>>> It is not in the repo, either base or updates.
> 
>> what Fabian meant was that for packages which are not in the 7.2 
>> repos yet,  you should start looking for them in the buildlogs
>> of the older release(s) -- 7.1.1503 in the particular case of
>> SA. Download the package from the URL pointed to by Fabian, add
>> it to your local repo, retry installing. wash, rinse, repeat for
>> any deps that arise.
> 
> 
> Yeah, that's what I meant :-) otoh, I just had a quick look at that
> one, and it can be installed automatically with the base repo, so
> something not caught by my compose_tree script it seems. Let me try
> to add it in the os repo, after it will be signed, and repodata
> regenerated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 

Just to add that we decided to not touch the os repo once released.
So, even if that's technically not an update, we'll release it through
the updates repo

Cheers,

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Fabian Arrotin
The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org
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