--- Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > 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, No, thanks a lot to you and all the team :-) cu roger __________________________________________ RedHat Certified ( RHCE ) Cisco Certified ( CCNA & CCDA ) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz