[CentOS-devel] Questions about the new git.centos.org repos

Wed Jun 11 02:06:54 UTC 2014
Carl Trieloff <cctrieloff at redhat.com>

On 06/10/2014 07:33 PM, Farkas Levente wrote:
> On 06/11/2014 12:47 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 06/10/2014 05:25 PM, Farkas Levente wrote:
>>> On 06/10/2014 11:49 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>>> On 06/10/2014 10:48 PM, Connie Sieh wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 06/10/2014 10:15 PM, Pat Riehecky wrote:
>>>>>>> I've seen build reports for CentOS 7 coming through.  Any
>>>>>>> suggestions for how I can get the 7 sources downloaded
>>>>>>> with GA and errata listed out?
>>>>>> all the buildreports are on buildlogs.centos.org/ but i
>>>>>> believe Johnny is still working through multilib challenges
>>>>>> for the bootstrap from 7rc, we've done this in the past in
>>>>>> the old reimzul, but I am very keen that we do the entire
>>>>>> process in the public, mock + logs etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm going to work on the errata and scl stuff in the AM
>>>>>> tomorrow, will share results.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Is this version of the C7 build using  "srpms" assembled from
>>>>>  git.centos.org or srpms from "someplace" else ?
>>>> were only using git.centos.org, no 'someplace else' is
>>>> available to us.
>>> this means redhat has access to git.centos.org and they (you
>>> don't know who) has write access and push all the source into it
>>> and you don't know what they check in and you also modify the
>>> same repo for centos modification???
>>>
>>> it's a joke! or isn't?
>>>
>> We have only officially modified 3 packages ... centos-indexhtml, 
>> centos-release, centos-logos.  All the other mods will come from
>> the public branding hunt that is happening on this mailing list.
>>
>> The code gets put into the git repo, yes ... then we use it.
>>
>> Not sure what the question or joke is?
> so there is host git.centos.org which is under the centos.org domain
> which was created and administered by rh since you don't know who and
> how create these repo. you just got it and use it. and this site
> (git.centos.org) referred as the place where the src.rpm are moved
> (according to ftp.redhat.com) but you don't know about it and where is
> not any src.rpm at all. imho this is a bit funny.
>
> that's why people as where is the src.rpm and since it's under centos
> domain we assume you administer this site (ie create git user and
> gives rights) so we assume you know who can check in this repo who can
> create this repo etc. so in stead of asking rh we can ask you to told
> us how is aware of the current situation.
>
> so eg firefox already has 5 commits:
> https://git.centos.org/log/rpms!firefox.git/refs!heads!c7
> the author can't be determined since it's always:
> CentOS Sources <bugs at centos.org> from the beginning. from where can we
> know which is redhat and which is centos?
>
> is it clean now what's the question?
>
>



Pretty simple, people can 'commit' if part of SIG / project etc, and
automated 'commit' from a Red Hat process. GIT means you can build from
any point, re-base, build trees from any point as desired etc.