[CentOS-devel] CentOS Stream 8 is transitioning to be ahead of RHEL 8 - Compose push to mirror operations affected

Wed Feb 22 13:39:43 UTC 2023
Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 4:44 AM Alex Iribarren <alex.m.lists3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> Does this update freeze affect security fixes as well? Will Stream 8 not
> receive any updates at all until the transition is completed, or will
> Critical updates still be released?

That is correct.  The convergence of workflows is a high priority but
relatively short duration item so builds will begin again once it is
complete.  As a reminder, CentOS overall has no CVE fix SLAs or
guarantees, and Critical CVE fixes go directly to RHEL first.

josh

> On 2/19/23 23:52, Brian Stinson wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > As many of you know, CentOS Stream 8 is currently produced using an
> > "inside out" workflow, meaning RHEL builds happen first and then are
> > reflected in CentOS Stream afterward. This is not the case with CentOS
> > Stream 9 where builds are performed directly by maintainers at Red Hat
> > from merge requests in gitlab.com <http://gitlab.com>.
> >
> > The CentOS Stream team is busy working on a project to migrate CentOS
> > Stream 8 to the gitlab.com/Stream-first <http://gitlab.com/Stream-first>
> > workflow. This is an exciting step to reflect CentOS Stream's true
> > purpose in both currently active releases.
> >
> > One effect of this transition, though, is that we need to migrate from
> > the old mbox buildsystem to the new Stream koji
> > (https://kojihub.stream.centos.org <https://kojihub.stream.centos.org>).
> > To do this the team needs to pause regular compose and push-to-mirror
> > jobs to avoid a split-brain situation with 2 separate systems. You may
> > notice a lack of updates to the repos on the mirrors for a few more
> > weeks while this transition is completed. The team's first priority is
> > making sure that Red Hat maintainers take control over the c8s branches
> > in https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms
> > <https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms> (and builds in koji) and
> > then the team will return to working on regular composes and
> > push-to-mirror operations.
> >
> > If you have any questions in the interim, please reach out to me.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > --
> > Brian Stinson
> >
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