On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 11:35 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 12:28 PM Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > > > > On 8/19/21 11:21 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 06:05:49AM +0200, Steven Rosenberg via CentOS-devel wrote: > > >> Even emails like I see for for CentOS 7 would be ok. > > > > > > Considering that people have had nearly 2 years to get such notices out > > > for 8 and it's still not happened I wouldn't hold my breath if I were > > > you. > > > > > > > I would provide the information if i could, it is not easy to do because > > of modularity. > > > > The thing that builds el8 modules is called MBS .. if you look at MBS > > operations, one of the things that gets generated as part of the > > filename. Here is an example: > > > > https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=18783 > > > > Part of the file name is dynamic, created by MBS at build time. For > > example, one of the Source RPM filenames generated is: > > > > runc-1.0.0-74.rc95.module_el8.4.0+886+c9a8d9ad.src.rpm > > > > That is not it's filename in RHEL8. In RHEL 8 .. the filename is: > > > > runc-1.0.0-74.rc95.module+el8.4.0+11822+6cc1e7d7.src.rpm > > > > There is no easy way to figure out the file names that match up between > > the two systems. I took me 15 minutes to figure out that one filename, > > this does not scale. > > Everything prior to ".module" should be unique, identifiable, and > identical between RHEL and CentOS. MBS whacks %dist to add MBS Not exactly. Sometimes RHEL maintainers add digits after %dist, which results in NVRs like foo-1.0-1.module_el8.4.0+123+a0a0a0a0.1. It's not impossible to parse, but it's much more complicated that just ignoring everything after ".module". > information at the end. So there is some mapping. Additionally, when > the RPMs are imported from RHEL into CentOS, the original NVR is > present as a tag. Ignoring transmodrifier remapping modulemd commits > between RHEL and CentOS, you have enough baseline references to be > able to connect the dots because the RHEL dist-git shorthash is > present in the import tag, which would exist in the imported modulemd > before transmodification. > > That process could be automated, but I was never particularly > motivated to do it because of the historical attitude around providing > errata for CentOS users like Fedora users get. I'm not aware of any policy against allowing this in the project. If there is I hope board members will speak up and clarify that. I suspect it's more of a resource thing than anything. > > > -- > 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel -- Carl George