Johnny Hughes wrote: > Roger Peña wrote: >> --- Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 9/8/07, Roger Peña <orkcu at yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> hi >>>> >>>> I just came to wonderling how centos team update >>> the >>>> csgfs repo, what is the procedure to do that ?. >>>> >>>> I use csgfs from centos and works great, thanks a >>> lot >>>> for provide it :-) >>>> >>>> but how you know when uptream provide an update >>> for >>>> the packages? >>>> I notice the last update because I read the rss >>> alert >>>> feed but not because they use the redhat-announce >>>> list, neither centos send a messages when there is >>> an >>>> update to centos-announce :-( >>>> >>>> right now I am facing the problem with a lacking >>> of >>>> *-kernel packages in csgfs for the newest >>> centos4's >>>> kernel; I can, and will, compile the srpms from >>>> uptreams for the new -55.0.6 kernel but I am just >>>> wonderling how others solve this problem... >>> I suppose you will get an authentic answer from >>> Johnny Hughes, but to >>> give you a quick update on this ... this is what he >>> said on the centos >>> IRC this morning. >>> >>> <hughesjr> hi ... I am doing the new centosplus >>> kernel now .. and as >>> soon as that is done, I will be working on csgfs >>> kernel modules for >>> the normal kernel as well as the DRBD and XFS kernel >>> modues for the >>> plus and normal kernel >> so, it looks like he just passthrough the "updates >> jobs that have to be done" queue ? ;-) >> >> I hope he will anwser my email :-) but... >> first I don't want to irespect jonny and the rest of >> centos team, they are doing a great amazing job, a lot >> of peoples including me , are beneficiating from their >> work. >> but, is there any chance that others "channels" that >> uptreams release in its public ftp (mirrors) system >> get processed like the os/update channel ? >> I barely remember that someone from centos team said >> sometime in the past that the update release in centos >> is almost automatic: uptream release a package and >> some scripts in centos dev pick them and compile them >> and then release them as centos updates, am I correct? >> if that is the case, could csgfs (or RHCS and RHGFS) >> could be included in such enviroment? >> if the procedure is just manual.... then I will >> accept, without questions, centos team priorities :-) >> ;-) >> > > The answer is that there are plenty of manual steps required whether we > are talking about normal updates or csgfs items. > > The csgfs updates are particularly tricky because of the build > requirements (several packages are i386 others i686 ... package "A" from > the update needs to be built and installed to build package "B", etc. > So the CSFGS updates are more manual than the normal updates. > > However, there is also a checking against upstream binary phase for all > updates that is also manual (normal and csgfs). > > After that phase, and after installing and testing locally, then there > is a release. > > Besides that, there are only 24 hours in a day :D > > I am currently working on CSGFS for centos-4, you can expect it to be > updated within the next 24 hours if everything builds and tests OK. > OK ... the CentOS-4 csgfs area should be updated to the latest RPMS now Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20070909/26f3b1d0/attachment-0005.sig>