[CentOS-devel] missing packages from buildlogs repo

Thu Jun 26 13:52:26 UTC 2014
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 06/26/2014 07:18 AM, Bojtos Péter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Do you publish somewhere those packages, which are built for multilib
> purposes but are not in the RHEL packagelist? I'd like to use them for
> bootstrapping the EL7 i686 builds and see, what happens. I don't like
> to use Fedora 19 packages for bootstrapping, since I'd have to do the
> compilation twice.
>
> I'd like to help building the i686 packages, where should I start?
>

Yes, they are all in c7.00.0[2,3,4] and c7-updates:

http://buildlogs.centos.org/

You could likely use lftp mirror command to get those, though it will
take a while.

Once CentOS-7 GA is out the door, we will likely start concentrating on
this ... it should be something that is a priority soon after.

But, I would expect both EL 5.11 and EL 6.6 fairly soon as well, so we
will have to see what happens.

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     *Feladó: *"Johnny Hughes" <johnny at centos.org>
>     *Címzett: *centos-devel at centos.org
>     *Elküldött üzenetek: *Csütörtök, 2014. Június 26. 14:05:22
>     *Tárgy: *Re: [CentOS-devel] missing packages from buildlogs repo
>
>     On 06/26/2014 06:18 AM, Bojtos Péter wrote:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > I tried to built some RHEL packages for i686 architecture. I
>     tried to
>     > use the i686 packages here:
>     > http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64-latest/
>     >
>     > The build did not succeed, since several packages are missing.
>     (that's
>     > ok since Red Hat dropped i686 support)
>     >
>     > The interesting part is that there is the source package *cracklib*,
>     > which produces the following packages:
>     > cracklib, cracklib-devel, cracklib-dicts, cracklib-python.
>     >
>     > Cracklib and cracklib devel is in the repo for i686 but the
>     other two
>     > packages are missing. How can it be?
>     > Did I miss some information about populating the repo?
>
>     The multilib packages contained in CentOS-7 x86_64 distro are the same
>     as those contained in the upstream EL7 version, as we purposely match
>     the filelists.
>
>     As KB stated, all the i686 packages we needed to do the build are
>     in the
>     c7.00.0? (or c7-updates) directories.  But even those are not
>     enough for
>     a full tree ... just want we needed to get all the i686 for multilib.
>
>     We are planning on building a full i686 ARCH, as I have said before.
>     But the x86_64 manifest will not have all the i686 packages, only the
>     multilib ones.
>
>     So eventually, all the i686 RPMs will be available when we actually
>     build to complete an i686 tree.
>

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