[CentOS-devel] [ISA SIG] Meeting notes 2023-07-07

Fri Jul 7 18:06:50 UTC 2023
Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com>

We met for the first time today.

Florian briefly summarized the status of the CentOS 9 Stream rebuilds
with x86-64-v2 and x86-64-v3.  For details, please see:

  [CentOS-devel] ISA SIG rebuild status
  <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2023-June/143007.html>

Since then, Troy has added consumption documentation describing how to
consume the builds:

  Convert CentOS Stream 9 to ISA
  <https://sigs.centos.org/isa/consuming/centosstream9/#convert-centos-stream-9-to-isa>

Currently, there are no plans to keep the package set up-to-date with
regards to CentOS 9 Stream.

Troy plans to create centos-release-isa package which, upon
installation, creates the unusual repository configuration.  This will
be an explicit download, not part of CentOS Extras, out of concern that
people might try to install it accidentally otherwise.

Ali raised the matter of zlib-ng (see the previous mailing list thread).
Florian thinks that zlib-ng in compat mode is something to explore.
This work should happen in Fedora first, targeting Fedora 40.  Florian
to send email to relevant parties.

Troy and Florian are going to explore creating two container images for
each rebuild variant, so that people have a more familiar starting
point for some quick experiments.


We plan to reconvene on July 21st, at 16:00 UTC (date and time still
tentative; it's the alternate slot for the bi-weekly Fedora ELN
meeting).  Please drop me a line if you want to be added to the meeting
invitation.  Update of the CentOS calendar is still pending:
<https://github.com/CentOS/Calendar/pull/62> (We will likely keep using
Google Meet instead of IRC, though.)

Thanks,
Florian