[CentOS-devel] Plan for releasing CentOS CR into CBS and CI

Thu Aug 31 10:18:34 UTC 2017
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

x86_64 and ppc64 and ppc64le are ready to go, can we get those into CBS
and CI and let aarch64 catchup ? It does not look like Jim's anywhere
near closing that off.

Thomas, any options you can think through here ?

On 31/08/17 08:48, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> 
> 
> 2017-08-30 15:07 GMT+02:00 Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org
> <mailto:arrfab at centos.org>>:
> 
>     On 21/08/17 16:57, Brian Stinson wrote:
>     > Hi Folks,
>     >
>     > We've had a few discussions around how to handle releasing CR
>     > (https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR
>     <https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR>) over the
>     > past few days.
>     >
>     > When we last checked in, there was still a bit of work going on building
>     > and testing pre-release CR (the QA team has been hard at work), and the
>     > altarch builds were still in progress.
>     >
>     > There are 2 ways the release might play out:
>     >
>     > - If the altarch (aarch64, and ppc64{,le}) builds are finished, and we
>     >   are otherwise ready: CBS and CI will be seeded from the mirrors just
>     >   like usual, and CR will be available at roughly the same time as the
>     >   rest of the mirror network
>     >
>     > - If the altarch builds are not yet ready, the CentOS QA team may decide
>     >   to release x86_64 ahead of the other arches. In that case, we will
>     >   wait for ppc and aarch64 but still seed CI and CBS together as soon as
>     >   the altarch builds are ready.
>     >
>     >
>     > If there are any questions, feel free to comment here. As always we will
>     > post updates as we move forward.
>     >
>     > Cheers!
>     >
>     > --
>     > Brian Stinson
> 
>     I was dscussing with some people on IRC who got the false impression
>     that what they were building and also testing in CI was tested against
>     CR. I'm back from "offline mode" and had a quick check, but it seems
>     that your proposal #2 was the one that was chosen : nothing pushed to
>     CBS/CI so built/tested against 7.3 and not 7.3+CR
> 
>     Just want to be sure that we communicate that as I saw some RDO folks
>     mentioning Pike (next release) being released today and they hoped to
>     follow closely the upstream release. I hope that then the 7.4.1708
>     release will not break their Pike builds and tests (released before
>     7.4.1708)
> 
> 
> Also note qemu-kvm-ev is still qemu-kvm-ev-2.6.0-28.el7.10.1
> <http://cbs.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=17495>
> because without 7.4 bits in CBS I can't
> build qemu-kvm-ev-2.9.0-16.el7_4.3.1
> <http://cbs.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=19374> so enabling CR repo
> will break qemu-kvm-ev users.
> 
>  

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