[CentOS-devel] CBS and SIGs consuming CentOS 8 / Stream

Brian Stinson

brian at bstinson.com
Thu Oct 17 16:53:38 UTC 2019


On Thu, Oct 17, 2019, at 11:52, Brian Stinson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019, at 11:24, Matthias Runge wrote:
> > On 02/10/2019 17:07, Thomas Oulevey wrote:
> > > Hi Folks,
> > > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > 2/ CentOS 8 buildroot
> > > 
> > > When 1/ is done we can create an C8 buildroot without enabling the 
> > > Appstream repo.
> > > 
> > > Due to the nature of Appstream, and how koji uses mergerepo 
> > > (--koji)/updaterepo/mock, more work is needed to get a working buildroot.
> > > 
> > > I don't fully understand the underlying issue so comments are very 
> > > welcome to enlighten us !
> > > 
> > > One of the solution found by Fedora team is to split Appstream per 
> > > repository and enable only the one needed in a specific buildroot [3].
> > > 
> > > We are evaluating the tools. And see if we can use koji external-repo or 
> > > tag inheritance to achieve it (which is mbox solution [4])
> > > 
> > > However for a community build service, we don't know exactly what people 
> > > will build and what Appstream packages will be needed in each buildroot 
> > > (we have 290 targets at this time for C7). So we still need time and new 
> > > ideas :-)
> > > 
> > > * Status: Investigating possible solutions.
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > since I keep hearing interest of building SIG packages for CentOS 8, is
> > there an update on this topic?
> > 
> > Matthias
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> 
> There are a lot of things happening behind the scenes that needed to be 
> resolved before we open up the gates and do builds against CentOS 8 or 
> CentOS Stream buildroots. Here are the 2 major items:
> 
> - Upgrading koji inCBS: (Fabian and Thomas can correct me if I'm wrong) 
> This should be ready enough to set a date for the upgrade
> 
> - Dealing with modular content in the buildroot: We're closer than I 
> expected us to be and I'd like to finish this discussion with a proposal
> 
> Over the past few weeks, we haven't been holding the regular CBS 
> meeting since most of us were busy wrangling these items and others. 
> I'd like for us to start the meetings back again on Monday 22-October 
> 14:00 UTC in #centos-meeting on Freenode
> 
> At the 22-October meeting, we'll outline the solutions and proposals we 
> came up with and decide on a schedule (if the necessary folks are 
> present). Come join us for that discussion.

My apologies, those both should read '21-October' we are indeed meeting at our usual time on *Monday*

> 
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