[CentOS-virt] CentOS 7.6 and Xen 4.6 / centos-release-xen broken

Tue Mar 5 19:37:47 UTC 2019
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 01:32:38PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> > >
> > > It seems currently "centos-release-xen" package is broken in CentOS7,
> > > it points to xen-46 repo, which isn't available anymore in CentOS 7.6:
> > >
> > > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/virt/x86_64/
> > >
> > >       -> xen-48/
> > >       -> xen-410/
> > >
> > >
> > > # yum clean all
> > > # yum search centos-release-xen
> > > ..
> > > centos-release-xen.x86_64 : CentOS Virt SIG Xen repo configs
> > > centos-release-xen-48.x86_64 : CentOS Virt Sig Xen repo configs for Xen 4.8
> > > centos-release-xen-common.x86_64 : CentOS Virt Sig Xen support files
> > > ..
> > >
> > > # yum install centos-release-xen
> > > # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Xen.repo
> > >
> > > # CentOS-Xen.repo
> > > #
> > > # Please see http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/Xen4 for more
> > > # information
> > >
> > > [centos-virt-xen-46]
> > > name=CentOS-$releasever - xen
> > > baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/virt/$basearch/xen-46
> > > gpgcheck=1
> > > enabled=1
> > > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Virtualization
> > >
> > > [centos-virt-xen-46-testing]
> > > name=CentOS-$releasever - xen - testing
> > > baseurl=http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/$releasever/virt/$basearch/xen-46
> > > gpgcheck=0
> > > enabled=0
> > > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Virtualization
> > >
> > >
> > > I guess two things should happen in CentOS7:
> > >
> > > 1) Publish centos-release-xen-410 package
> > >
> >
> > Ah, actually it's there already in xen-48 and xen-410 dirs, but not in CentOS extras.
> >
> >
> > > 2) Update centos-release-xen package to point to.. 410 ?
> > >
> >
> > So it seems the "centos-release-xen" package in "extras" repo has the xen-46 reference in it.
> > So we should update the package in extras.
> 
> Sorry, missed this -- yes, we've been trying to get the powers that be
> to update it for some time; we did finally manage to get it updated a
> week or two ago.  Could you give it a try now?
> 

Indeed, now "centos-release-xen" on centos7-extras gives xen-48 repo. That's better :)


Thanks a lot,

-- Pasi


>  -George
>