[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 (2009) in progress

Sun Oct 25 17:14:34 UTC 2020
Jacco Ligthart <jacco at redsleeve.org>

Hi Johnny,


I see that CR is released. However I seem to miss the sources. I
expected them here: http://vault.centos.org/7.8.2003/cr/Source/SPackages/

Can you please upload them? (Or am I looking at the wrong place)


Thanks,


Jacco


On 10/3/20 1:51 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 10/2/20 10:57 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 9/29/20 10:01 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>> On 9/29/20 9:47 AM, James Cassell wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>>>> OK all .. RHEL 7.9 source code updated today.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am currently working to start the build of CentOS 7 based on that
>>>>> [CentOS 7 (2009) ].
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently, we need to bootstrap and then build llvm-toolset-9.0 and
>>>>> rust-toolset-1.41 as some of the released packages need those toolsets. 
>>>>> I also need to check devtoolset-7 and devtoolset-8 and see if we need
>>>>> any updates to pacakges there before we start the main build .. and I
>>>>> need to see of any of the packages need devtoolset-9.
>>>>>
>>>>> Once we have all those prerequisites completed, I can start the main builds.
>>>>>
>>>>> The goal, as usual, is to get the CR repo populated in 7 to 10 days:
>>>>> https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR
>>>>>
>>>>> And the final release completed in less than 40 days.
>>>>>
>>>> Awesome! Thanks for the transparency!
>>> Once I start the main builds, they will show up here for anyone who
>>> wants to see what has or has not yet built:
>>>
>>> https://buildlogs.centos.org/
>>>
>>> (in the c7.2009.00.$arch dir for GA release .. and c7.2009.u.$arch for
>>> updates to GA release).
>>>
>>> So, anyone who wants to can see what is built, what is not, any errors
>>> .. the build logs and root logs, etc. from mock.
>>>
>>> Also .. you can see the toolsets, etc.
>>>
>>> (c7-llvm-toolset-9.0.$arch c7-rust-toolset-1.41.$arch will be there once
>>> they sync out form the builders)
>>>
>> Also some more details at:
>>
>> https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_7
>>
> Issues we are currently working through in this build:
>
> 1. Several Gnome packages have a Hidden BuildRoot requirement for meson.
> Had to build and add meson the c7.2009.00 directories for all arches.
> Complicating this issue .. el7 requires meson-0.45 to build ..
> el7-extras requires meson-0.47 to build. Meson is not in base el7.
>
> 2. webkitgtk4 requires EOL'ed devtoolset-7 combined with specifically
> llvm-toolset-7, needed a unique buildroot/configuration specifically for
> that package on all arches. Neither of these toolsets are in base el7.
>
> 3. exiv2 requires llvm-toolset-7, needed a unique
> buildroot/configuration specifically for that package on all arches.
> This is not in base el7.
>
> 4. cockpit requires go-toolset-1.12. This is not in base el7.
>
> 5. The standard CentOS debranding for ipa and sos have failed, they need
> to be refactored.
>
> 6. We need to convert the aarch64 and ppc64le (power9) kernel,
> kernel-4.18.0-193.19.1.el8_2, to el7 and get it to build.
>
> 7. We had an issue with the ppc, ppc64, ppc64le gcc hanging on build
> which we solved using rngd on the builders.
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
>
>
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