[CentOS-devel] Centos 8.1 - missing src.rpms/debuginfos (again)

Fri May 22 14:16:15 UTC 2020
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 5/11/20 6:30 AM, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> Hello, it's the annoying guy again.
> 
> Dominique Martinet wrote on Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 08:08:31AM +0200:
>> Dominique Martinet wrote on Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 12:04:22PM +0200:
>>> And at the risk of being insistent the same applies to debuginfo, there
>>> is no kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-147.8* on debuginfo.centos.org :(
>>>
>>> (This is annoying because just rebuilding doesn't cut it as the build
>>> isn't reproductible, so you have to be using the rebuilt rpm everywhere
>>> before crashes happen to make any use of kdumps... And dnf doesn't let
>>> you reinstall the currently running kernel to make things even more
>>> unpleasant...)
>>
>> Sorry for "spamming", it's been a week and I would appreciate an answer
>> even if it's just a "we're looking at it and it'll come eventually".
> 
> Another two weeks passed. Next mail in three weeks? Not quite
> exponential back-off but centos 8.2 will be out at some point and that
> will automagically wipe the problem under the rug until updates
> happen...
> 
> 
> Once again I'm not asking do it _now_, but:
>  - just an ack would be a great start! Are my mails already redirected
> to /dev/null?! Saying so would be the polite thing to do as well, I
> don't like wasting my time that much.
> and
>  - can we do something to help with this particular issue?
> 
> Thanks and good.. luck?
> 

All the sources are available on git.centos.org.  You can create any
SRPM from that data.  We are designing the build system, including
creating modules iwth mbs from scratch for CentOS 8 .. it is going to
take some time to automate making every go to the correct place.  If the
sources did not already exist on git.centos.org, this would be more or a
priority.

To get the sources from git.centos.org .. here is an example.  I just
picked a package, in this case amanda:

https://git.centos.org/rpms/amanda/branches

Click the c8 branch .. there are the sources.

Use these tools dow download the sources:
https://git.centos.org/centos-git-common

Specifically .. the tool 'into_srpm.sh' will create an SRPM from the git
repo if you have the branch checked out.