[CentOS-devel] RFC: CentOS 8 Repository Structure

[Karanbir Singh]

On 19/06/2019 19:22, Brian Stinson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019, at 13:07, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> On 19/06/2019 17:45, Brian Stinson wrote:
>> > 
>> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019, at 11:32, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> >> On 19/06/2019 17:18, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> We plan to compose all of those repositories, and deliver updates
>> >> in the same stream. 
>> >> > 
>> >> > Just so that people realize : no *updates* repo anymore, so all
>> combined
>> >> > : if you install from network $today, what you'll install
>> $tomorrow will
>> >> > have all rolled-in directly
>> >> > 
>> >>
>> >> that's not going to work - we need to retain the ability to deliver
>> >> reproducible installs.
>> > 
>> > Can you clarify this? What "reproducible install" pattern is broken
>> here?
>> > 
>> >>
>>
>> I need to be able to run installs against a mirror, weeks and months
>> apart and arrive at the same payload installed exactly.
>>
>> regards
> 
> Is there something preventing you from doing that if we ship updates in
> the same repo as the 0-day release content?
> 

yes,

if i yum install <httpd>; with the base only. I'd like to get the same
httpd, not the 3 versions removed in the updates that have now landed in
the same repo.

again, this maybe just a case of publishing a 2nd set of metadata rather
than retain the base rpm set, but we need to retain this functionality.


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