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

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!

V/r,
James Cassell