[CentOS-devel] [EXT] Re: Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream

Fri Jun 23 11:47:34 UTC 2023
Peter Georg <peter.georg at physik.uni-regensburg.de>

On 22/06/2023 12.56, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 6:51 AM Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel
> <centos-devel at centos.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I wonder if someone is in the role/position to shed some more light on
>> the topic as announced here
>> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream
>>
>> Any deadlines? Does this target only EL10 or also any current release?
> 
> It is in effect now for RHEL 8 and 9 and will continue for any future
> RHEL releases.  The development and source code for all of these
> releases will continue to happen through the CentOS Stream project.
> 
> RHEL 7 and CentOS Linux 7 are not affected.
> 
>> Would be great if some discussion/communication could be happen. Thanks!
> 
> If you have more questions, please ask and we can try to address them.

I do indeed have a question. The Kmods SIG currently provides artifacts 
for both CentOS Stream and RHEL. To achieve that we have established 
some automation using GitLab CI to avoid human interaction as far as 
possible. For that to work we do need access to the following sources 
from RHEL (version numbers are just examples):

kernel-5.14.0-284.18.1.el9_2.src.rpm

or

linux-5.14.0-284.18.1.el9_2.tar.xz (which is included in the src.rpm).

So far we have downloaded the tarball from git.centos.org/sources

However, my understanding is that new versions of these files will not 
be provided anymore. In fact the example listed here (current RHEL 9 
kernel) is already not provided anymore.

Is there any way for a CentOS SIG to access these files? Note that it 
needs to be in a way we can automate the access and even detection of 
new versions added. Both has been possible so far.

In a later stage we also need access to 
kernel-devel-5.14.0-284.18.1.el9_2.{aarch64,ppc64le,x86_64}.rpm which we 
have not been able to retrieve from RHEL directly so far, hence we used 
one of the RHEL rebuilds as a source. With the unknown future of these, 
we'd prefer to also have a way to access these directly from RHEL.

Any help in how we can modify our build automation to continue working 
after the announced changes are very much welcome. In case there are non 
we'll very likely have to stop producing artifacts for RHEL (but not for 
CentOS Stream, obviously).

Thanks!

Peter

> 
> josh
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