[CentOS-devel] URLs in centos-release-<sig> packages: /altarch vs. /centos/

2018-03-28 12:53 GMT+02:00 Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com>:

> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:03:11PM +0100, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> > 2018-03-06 17:40 GMT+01:00 Brian Stinson <brian at bstinson.com>:
> >
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> > > On Mar 06 00:11, Brian Stinson wrote:
> > > > Hi Folks,
> > > >
> > > > Now that we have SIG Content in the /altarch directories for CentOS
> 7 on
> > > the
> > > > mirrors, we need to come with some requirements and recommendations
> for
> > > dealing
> > > > with the different locations.
> > > >
> > > > tl;dr The current thinking is to add the following snippet in the
> %post
> > > of
> > > > centos-release and release to all of the arches. This will set a yum
> var
> > > to the
> > > > correct content location when a new system gets installed:
> > > >
> > > >     `uname -m | grep -q 'x86_64'  && echo 'centos'
> > > >/etc/yum/vars/contentdir || echo 'altarch' >/etc/yum/vars/contentdir`
> > > >
> > > > Here's the start of a proposal from the SIG perspective
> > > >
> > > > ## Requirements:
> > > >
> > > > - The same noarch binary RPM *must* be distributable to the Extras
> > > >   repo for each architecture
> > > >
> > > > - The centos-release-<SIG> packages *must* require centos-release
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ## New Recommendations for creating a centos-release file:
> > > >
> > > > - A yum variable called 'contentdir' will be populated with the
> toplevel
> > > >   directory for SIGs to use
> > > >
> > > > 1.) Modify baseurls in the SIG repo files to look like the following
> > > (using
> > > > openstack-queens as an example):
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  [centos-openstack-queens]
> > > >  name=CentOS-7 - OpenStack queens
> > > >  baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/$contentdir/cloud/$
> > > basearch/openstack-queens/
> > > >  gpgcheck=1
> > > >  enabled=1
> > > >  gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Cloud
> > > >  exclude=sip,PyQt4
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ## Discussion
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to hear thoughts, additions, and subtractions here before we
> > > update
> > > > the SIGGuide and rework centos-release.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers!
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Brian Stinson
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> > >
> > > To be clear,
> > >
> > > This is a PROPOSAL at this stage, we haven't actually made any changes
> > > to centos-release yet. At this point if you're actively doing work
> > > relying on the new variable, it will break!
> > >
> > > Also thank you to the folks up-thread who pointed out that there was a
> > > typo in the repo entry. mirror.centos.org should use http://
> > >
> >
> >
> > Any update on the acceptance of the proposal?
>
> This looks good to me. For the Gluster repos in the Storage SIG we'll
> follow this approach as soon as the packages are synced to the mirror
> (just filed bug 14631) and a new centos-release with the 'contentdir'
> variable is available.
>
> Thanks,
> Niels
>

Brian, any update on the status of the new centos-release rpm?

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SANDRO BONAZZOLA

ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D

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