[Arm-dev] CentOS 7.5.1804 content now available through CR !

[arm_ml at rirasoft.de]

Am 2018-04-27 08:26, schrieb Fabian Arrotin:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Some of you are probably subscribed to the CentOS-announce list
> (https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce) so they saw
> quite some mails about plenty of pkgs being now released through the CR
> repository 
> (https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR)
> 
> In the past, we built for all architectures through different build
> systems, but for this new 7.5.1804 release (rebuilt from 7.5) we 
> started
> to use a new build process to build for all arches in parallel through
> one single build system.
> 
> We never really had any CR repository before for armhfp and aarch64, 
> but
> content is now signed and pushed :
> - http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/cr/aarch64/
> - http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/cr/armhfp/
> 
> So that means that if people want to start getting up2date pkgs without
> waiting for the official GA release (as we need to build the correct
> install trees and isos images), a simple yum update would work, *but* ,
> as said, we never had any proper CR repo defined through centos-release
> (or centos-userland-release) for aarch64 and armhfp
> That will be fixed in the next -release file (already ready for 
> 7.5.1804
> GA release)
> 
> In the meantime, people willing to update can do the following (manual
> steps, as root) :
> 
> ###
> echo "altarch" > /etc/yum/vars/contentdir
> cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-CR.repo << EOF
> [cr]
> name=CentOS-$releasever - cr
> baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/\$contentdir/\$releasever/cr/\$basearch/
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7
> enabled=0
> EOF
> 
> yum update --enablerepo=cr
> 
> ###
> 
> Feedback welcome !
> 
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Hello Fabian,
thanks for this info, the update works as a charme. Nor kernel update? 
It doesn't matter, I'm on 4.14.28-201.el7.centos.armv7hl with my 
cubietrucks.

Greetings
Andreas