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=https://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 Hi All, Since there were no objections, I think we should start implementing this proposal. I would like see if KB or Johnny have any thoughts before we get started, since they'll be making these changes. --Brian