[Arm-dev] upcoming changes to the aarch64/arm64 build and yum repo files.

[Gordan Bobic]

On 2016-03-16 12:16, Jim Perrin wrote:
> I wanted to provide a bit of warning for upcoming aarch64/arm64
> repository changes, as they may impact users with local mirrors.
> 
> 1. I'm re-spinning the install media based on newer kernel patches I've
> pulled in from some vendors. This will allow the installer to support
> some of the newer hardware that's recently become available.
> 
> 2. In order to enable the aarch64 community builder, I've had to more
> closely align some of the aarch64 packages with the main distribution
> packages. This is primarily to deal with how noarch packages are 
> handled.
> 
> The end result of this change is that the repo file will now contain 
> two
> gpg keys, so if you've set up your own mirror and customized the repo
> file, you'll need to modify your updated file similarly.
> 
> I expect to be able to release the updated tree early next week so 
> these
> changes will happen reasonably soon.

Will there be an updated centos-release package that brings those
changes transparently via yum update? Or is manual intervention
required?

Also, you mention respinning the installer image. Can you please
point me at the scripts used for building the installer ISO?

Many thanks.

Gordan