[CentOS-devel] [EXT] Re: Discussion: Open technical questions concerning SIG content for RHEL releases

Wed Apr 5 17:57:27 UTC 2023
Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>

On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 12:38 PM Peter Georg
<peter.georg at physik.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
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> On 05/04/2023 17.29, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 6:07 AM Peter Georg
> > <peter.georg at physik.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
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> >> On 04/04/2023 13.58, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> >>> On 03/04/2023 19:03, Peter Georg wrote:
> >>>> (Second) gentle reminder that the second question below has not been
> >>>> addressed yet. Any thoughts? Thanks for taking your time!
> >>>>
> >>>> It'd also be helpful if anybody can provide any information on who I
> >>>> need to ping to get a decision on that matter. Thanks!
> >>>>
> >>>> On 27/01/2023 12.38, Peter Georg wrote:
> >>>>> Gentle reminder that the second question below has not been addressed
> >>>>> yet. Any thoughts? Thanks for taking your time.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 15/12/2022 00.04, Peter Georg wrote:
> >>>>>> Dear all,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> <snip>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The second open question concerns the centos-release-* packages
> >>>>>> provided by SIGs to allow users to easily consume SIGs' content. For
> >>>>>> 8s and 9s the CBS tags
> >>>>>> extras<el>-extras-common-{candidate,testing,release} are used to
> >>>>>> build these packages. This repository is added in CentOS Stream 8
> >>>>>> and 9.
> >>>>>> For packages build for RHEL 8 and 9 there is currently no common way
> >>>>>> to provide any means of easing the process to consume SIGs' content.
> >>>>>> My proposal to fix this is by adding
> >>>>>> extras<el>-extras-common-{candidate,testing,release} for <el> = 8
> >>>>>> and 9, i.e., using the same system as currently used for 8s and 9s.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> To further ease the process I propose to introduce a package named
> >>>>>> centos-release-extras which contains the repository config pointing
> >>>>>> to the content of the tags
> >>>>>> extras<el>-extras-common-{testing,release} (only -release enabled by
> >>>>>> default) and the CentOS-SIG-Extras GPG key. The
> >>>>>> centos-release-extras packages itself would be built in the
> >>>>>> extras<el>-extras-common-el<el> build target. Users of RHEL would
> >>>>>> then only need to install this single package to allow them to
> >>>>>> easily install any other centos-release-* packages. Obviously
> >>>>>> someone needs to maintain the centos-release-extras package. I
> >>>>>> volunteer to maintain this package.
> >
> > Are you asking to create and ship this package in the RHEL repos directly?
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> No. I'm asking to be allowed to build a centos-release-extras package in
> to-be-created build targets (extras8-extras-common-el8 and
> extras9-extras-common-el9) on CBS. RHEL users would still be required to
> manually download this package similar to how they install EPEL.

OK, thank you for the clarification.  That's what I had interpreted
but there was some confusion on the request so it's good to have
clarity.

josh