[CentOS-devel] Problem with $contentdir in centos qemu-ev release repos

Mon May 14 10:49:50 UTC 2018
Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>

2018-05-14 12:44 GMT+02:00 Sagi Shnaidman <sshnaidm at redhat.com>:

> Thanks for clarification, Sandro. Seems like qemu-ev repo is first to use
> this variable and alert about this problem.
>

I hope other SIGs will follow up soon in order to complete support for
ppc64le and aarch64.


>
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 1:37 PM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Adding CentOS Devel mailing list
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>> 2018-05-14 12:17 GMT+02:00 Sagi Shnaidman <sshnaidm at redhat.com>:
>>
>>> Hi, Sandro
>>>
>>> we have problems recently with having $contentdir in new qemu-ev repo
>>> release[1], because it's not set anywhere. It's not an exaggeration to say
>>> that it's blocking the whole TripleO CI in Openstack and anything else that
>>> uses CentOS 7.5 in Openstack[2].
>>>
>>> Can you please fix this problem in the package?
>>>
>>
>> The problem is not in the package.
>> On a centos instance installed with anaconda the $contendir variable is
>> filled by /etc/yum/vars/contentdir which is supposed to be installed by
>> centos-release rpm.
>>
>> The introduction of this variable has been proposed in
>> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2018-March/016542.html
>> and has been implemented in CentOS 7.5 GA.
>>
>> Looking at it, deeper I see:
>>
>> # LC_ALL=C rpm -qf /etc/yum/vars/contentdir
>> file /etc/yum/vars/contentdir is not owned by any package
>> Seems like centos-release rpm has a packaging issue.
>>
>> A bug has been opened on https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=14786 which
>> identified the bug happening in OpenStack CI as a bug in diskimage-builder.
>>
>> That said, I think centos-release-qemu-ev-1.0-3 is doing the right thing
>> there.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> [1] http://cbs.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=1950
>>> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/tripleo/+bug/1771090 -
>>> http://mirror.centos.org/%24contentdir/7/virt/x86_64/kvm-common/repodata/repomd.xml:
>>> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best regards
>>> Sagi Shnaidman
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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> --
> Best regards
> Sagi Shnaidman
>



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