[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 "nightly builds" and Live Media iso images

Tue Jun 17 16:57:29 UTC 2014
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs>

On 06/17/2014 04:24 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 06/17/2014 08:55 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> On 06/17/2014 02:10 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>>> On 06/16/2014 08:25 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>>>> As Karanbir announced it today, there will be "nightly builds" happening
>>>> every day, starting from today (the first one being scheduled to start
>>>> at 8PM UTC).
>>>> The whole process will be automated and would also start to reflect
>>>> those new trees.
>>>> That means that the url to enter for new network install, and yum
>>>> repositories will need to be using the 'latest' symlink when that one
>>>> will appear. (Normally full URL would be
>>>> http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64-latest)
>>> It would be nice to have "-latest" URL ready for announcement purposes,
>>> so others know it will exist.
>>>
>>>
>> latest is something we want to do - its been spokean about as well, but
>> remember we are replacing rpms without a bump in Epoc:Version-Release,
>> so there is no way for yum etc to know that something has changed under it.
>>
>> hence, the only real testing path is to reinstall and re-evaluate newer
>> releases.
>>
>> - KB
>>
>
> I want to point out here for those who think this might look chaotic ...
> this process is very similar to what we have done only with our private
> QA team in the past.
>
> We would do these temporary tree pushes, etc. to the QA team and they
> would test, find issues, post the issues to bugs or the QA mailing list
> and we would fix.  We have opened this up totally to the public to make
> the test group larger and hopefully find and fix issues faster, etc.
>
> However, the packages released here are going to do things LIKE ... be
> replaced with different builds that are newer with exactly the same EVR
> strings, etc.  We may do other crazy things too.
>
> The bottom line is that these packages should ABSOLUTELY NOT be used on
> anything that is even slightly important .. although, you may be able to
> point to a newer repo and do something like "yum distro-sync full" to
> get all the new packages.
>
> That said, be careful with these packages and don't keep/use them except
> for this testing.  Once we get a stabilized tree and that is released,
> then we can use that for real production things :)
>
>

That is understood, at least by me.

The reason I asked for this was that Youtube video emerged for people to 
test C7 and Fabian posted message about "latest", so since I already 
posted his message on Facebook and Google+ as a comment to Youtube 
Install video, it would be nice to have (by tomorrow?) "latest" pointing 
to last/only build so people do not start asking too many questions why 
it is missing.

And I will make sure to warn them about non-production, even tho I do 
not think that will be the problem since those who want to try it only 
want to look at it.


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Ljubomir Ljubojevic
(Love is in the Air)
PL Computers
Serbia, Europe

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