[Arm-dev] Enabling by default our "Epel rebuild" repo by default on CentOS 7 armhfp

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Mon Jul 31 12:27:45 UTC 2017


Oh,  and if this is done by spinning up new images, please enlarge /boot 
or fix update-boot.

I ran out of space in the default 500Mb /boot partition.  In fact, I am 
getting low on the servers where I increased /boot to 1Gb, so enhancing 
update-boot is probably the better route...

On 07/29/2017 06:54 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> A trend I see either on twitter, or irc, or elsewhere is a complaint
> about Epel not available for CentOS 7 userland on armhfp.
>
> It's of course technically true (as there is nothing listed on the Epel
> wiki page itself) but we covered that FAQ in our wiki :
> https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/Arm32#head-f2a772703b3caa90cc284e01bc87423ce9a87bcd
>
> Unfortunately, it seems that people never read that wiki page.
>
> So I was just wondering if we could have our epel rebuild effort
> (https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/epel-pass-1/) available directly
> for our armhfp users, without having them to do anything special.
>
> Now I'm wondering if we should just create a .repo (and coming from
> centos-userland-release) but have it disabled by default (imho) or even
> enable it by default (-1 on my side)
>
> Also, we should probably just rename it to something else than 'Epel' as
> we can't call that epel : it's a rebuild from Epel SRPMs but it's not Epel
>
> Opinions, Thoughts ? please make hear your voice !
>
> PS : also trying to make some noise on twitter to bring back users not
> subscribed to the arm-dev list, or not hanging around in #centos-arm on
> irc.freenode.net
>
>
>
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