[CentOS-devel] Building a downstream CentOS Atomic Host

Tue May 5 08:00:36 UTC 2015
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

On 05/05/15 04:08, Ian McLeod wrote:
> Apologies for the delayed progress here.  Some details below.
> 
> On 04/22/2015 04:56 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> On 04/17/2015 02:16 PM, Ian McLeod wrote:
>>> https://github.com/imcleod/sig-atomic-buildscripts/tree/scratch/rhel-snapshot/rhel-scratch-snapshot
>>>
>>> Prior to the full RPM source drop being available, I'd like to at least
>>> try some initial smoke test tree composes using the SIG content in CBS.
>>>  I will attempt to start on this early next week.
>>
>> Johnny is going to work on the rpms today, we should have a repo with
>> the binary built atomic branch content soon.
>>
>> With that in mind, do you have any thoughts on how best to setup the
>> rest of the pipeline to get the lorax build run and then the actual box
>> images and isos ?
>>
>> I was hoping to use the recently setup scripts and replace the repo
>> configs to point at this new rpms content + base OS + Updates + Extras (
>> so as to consume the upstream docker and deps ).
> 
> I and jbrooks have both had success generating a working tree using the
> JSON in the "downstream" branch of the SIG repo.  I've done this using
> only the Base, updates, extras and the "cah" rebuild repo that Johnny
> produced.  I'll PR these changes shortly.
> 
> The only snag I'm encountering has to do with the version of anaconda
> pulled into the installer.  The 7.1.1 Atomic install media is based on
> an Anaconda version that is older than the RHEL 7.1 release Anaconda.
> 
> Internally we generated installer media by pointing lorax at a repo that
> intentionally masked out the 7.1 anaconda packages while preserving the
> remainder of the 7.1 updates.  I've duplicated this locally using
> reposync to produce an appropriate repo for lorax.  It seems to work.

cool!

> However, this temporary intermediate lorax repo step doesn't fit very
> cleanly into the script workflow in the SIG repo, nor is it something
> that needs to be done on an ongoing basis.  With this in mind, I wanted
> to see if perhaps I could work with someone from the core team to spin
> the 7.1.1 install media by hand and then focus on a merged/automated
> approach going forward.

is that not achieved with just an exclude= in the repo def's ? if we
need to run a createrepo with an -x to exclude from the repo side, we
can do that as well. Typically, we snapshot the tree that goes into a
build anyway.

regards

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