[CentOS-devel] CS9: current firefox not in compose

Mon Sep 12 15:56:55 UTC 2022
Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org>

On 12/09/2022 15:47, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 2:05 AM Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org 
> <mailto:pperry at elrepo.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 11/09/2022 08:41, Branislav Náter wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      >
>      > On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 8:46 PM Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel
>      > <centos-devel at centos.org <mailto:centos-devel at centos.org>
>     <mailto:centos-devel at centos.org <mailto:centos-devel at centos.org>>>
>     wrote:
>      >
>      >     I wonder about the current firefox build 91.13.0-1.el9? Its
>     not on the
>      >     mirrors (comp 20220829) nor in the last prod compose
>     (20220909) / both
>      >     lists firefox-91.11.0-2.el9 ... Thanks.
>      >
>      >
>      > For inclusion in the compose, it has to pass testing. Testing is
>     still
>      > in progress.
>      >
>      >
> 
>     I'm just trying to understand how it can still be in testing for Stream
>     when it has clearly passed testing and been released to RHEL? I thought
>     Stream sat 'upstream' of RHEL?
> 
>     What extra testing is performed for packages in Stream that is not
>     performed for the same packages in RHEL? What tests are failing? Should
>     we be concerned as RHEL users that we are not receiving the full
>     testing
>     experience?
> 
> 
> So people know the sequence of events.
> 
> firefox-91.13.0-1.el9_0 was built in RHEL 9.0  on 2022-08-18
> - The build passed all of it's gating tests.
> - This was built on a RHEL 9.0 buildroot, and tested on a RHEL 9.0 buildroot
> - This got pushed to RHEL 9.0 only
> 
> firefox-91.13.0-1.el9 was built on CentOS Stream 9 and RHEL 9.1 on 
> 2022-08-25
> - This build did not pass it's gating tests - it still hasn't
> - This was built on a RHEL 9.1 buildroot, and tested on a RHEL 9.1 buildroot
> - As far as I can tell, it's got the same tests.  It's possible that one 
> or more of the tests went from "warn when it fails" to "fail when it 
> fails", but it looks like the tests are the same.
> - It's also possible that something changed in RHEL 9.1 that is causing 
> the tests to fail.
> - I'm not on the firefox team, I'm just looking at the gating system, 
> and to be honest, when I look beyond the "passed" - "failed" parts and 
> into the results, I get lost.
> 
>  From everything I can see, this delay wasn't the result of an embargo, 
> simply tests not passing.
> 
> Troy
> 

Thank you Troy - great explanation :-)

Regards,

Phil