[CentOS-devel] Virt SIG release rpms not landing in extras

Mon Sep 14 14:26:18 UTC 2020
Louis Lagendijk <louis at fazant.net>

On Mon, 2020-09-14 at 08:21 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 9/9/20 1:53 AM, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> > Hi,
> > On Thursday, September 2nd hughesjr built a couple of VIrt SIG
> > release rpms.
> > Transcript from IRC:
> > (16:42:34)*hughesjr:*
> > https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=165776 ;
> > https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=165843
> > (16:43:09)*hughesjr:* I'll get those in the next compose .. likely
> > later
> > today or tomorrow morning at the latest
> > 
> > I guess the build missed a compose on Thursday and I know CentOS is
> > not
> > releasing on Fridays so I expected it to land on Monday September
> > 7th.
> > As of today the packages are not yet in extras repo, is there any
> > problem in the release process or in the built rpms? Anything I can
> > help
> > with?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -- 
> > 
> > Sandro Bonazzola
> 
> Obviously this is now pushed .. sorry for the delay.
> 
> C8 in general, just takes more time.  This is an entirely different
> process than the last 17 years.  It involves a koji builder, a
> signing
> HSM that lives in a different place than koji with manual signatures,
> a
> compose process that rebuilds the whole repo via pungi .. not just an
> additive process. Publishing the repo to QA first then to live after
> auto running of CI and not the ability for me to manually run it.
> 
> In short .. getting a C8 release of any type is very time consuming.
> Throw in the need to prioritize normal updates for base c6, c7, c8
> over
> extras or centosplus and it just takes more time.
> 
> I am sorry, but that is just the truth. I am one person.
doing a great job! Mr effort is much appreciated!
Louis
>