[Centos-automotive-sig] Weekly update on the automotive-sig

Fri Apr 1 12:54:45 UTC 2022
Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com>

Good Morning Everyone,

So here are some of the changes that we have worked on over the last couple
of weeks:

* We have worked on the osbuild templates and the repository structure to
make them more flexible and less cs9 specific.

  This moves the configuration for the base cs9 stuff to a separate file
distro/cs9.ipp.yml, and allows you to easily create similar setups for
other distros (such as the AutoSD repos) which automatically creates the
right makefile targets for them. Etc.

* The work to enable a new lookaside cache structure is progressing: it has
been updated and we confirmed that we can upload to it, but CBS still needs
a little adjustment before it can use it (code is written, just needs to be
deployed)

* Started drafing the best-practices doc for using the centos namespace on
gitlab.com: https://git.centos.org/centos/sig-guide/pull-request/4

* We greatly improved our suppport for OSTree repository use.

  The Makefile makes it easy to create and maintain a repo, and the runvm
changes makes it easy to allow VMs to access that repo. The new docs give
more context about what OSTree is and how it works. See
https://sigs.centos.org/automotive/building/updating_ostree/ for more
details!

* Some changes in the OSTree image type.

  We now use bootloader=none, which means the grub config is not rewritten
on each update. There is now an ostree remote configured, and it is used as
the main origin for the ostree ref that was used, allowing for updates out
of the box. The url for the remote is configurable with a variable.

* The automotive SIG signed up for early access to gitlab.com/centos and
help the CentOS infra team to smooth the edges there


Happy hacking!

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 Alexander Larsson                                Red Hat, Inc
       alexl at redhat.com         alexander.larsson at gmail.com
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