[CentOS-devel] New CBS/SIG signing process

Tue Mar 10 17:00:06 UTC 2020
James Cassell <fedoraproject at cyberpear.com>

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, at 12:42 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On 10/03/2020 17:32, James Cassell wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, at 12:27 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> >> On 10/03/2020 16:17, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> >>> Hi all (especially SIG members/contributors) ,
> >>>
> >> <snip>
> >>>
> >>> If you have questions, comments, feel free to answer in this thread
> >>> and/or #centos-devel on irc.freenode.net
> >>>
> >>
> >> Replying to myself based on a discussion we had with Alfredo in
> >> #centos-devel :
> >> We'll also stop using mash to generate the initial repositories, so
> >> https://cbs.centos.org/repos will completely disappear after the full
> >> switch to new system (FWIW)
> >>
> > 
> > What's the replacement for these repos? Specifically, the -candidate versions.
> > 
> > V/r,
> > James Cassell
> 
> -candidate has never been really something that was supposed to be
> exposed as repo to be consumed from. That's the reason only -testing (as
> name implies it) and -release were pushed out.
> We'll not generate "ready-to-be-consumed" repos for -candidate tags, but
> individually people can still "cbs download-build $build_id" straight
> from koji/cbs if they want to .
> 
> So said differently, we expect SIG to test (through CI and also
> externally) what's in the -testing tag. Does it make sense ? :)
> 

Is/will everything from the -candidate repos be/available in the testing repos? What's the intended purpose/use of -candidate today?

V/r,
James Cassell