[CentOS] [EXT] Re: Kmods SIG in RHEL

Wed Sep 21 10:40:26 UTC 2022
Thomas Stephen Lee <lee.iitb at gmail.com>

Thanks a lot, Fabian and Peter

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Lee

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 3:57 PM Peter Georg
<peter.georg at physik.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 21/09/2022 12.02, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> > On 21/09/2022 11:51, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> >> On 21/09/2022 08:32, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Is
> >>> https://sigs.centos.org/kmods/
> >>> a part of RHEL 9?
> >>> If yes, what is the repository name?
> >>> If not, when can we expect it to be included?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>> ---
> >>> Lee
> >>
> >> No, it's not part of RHEL9 , and it's built and maintained by the
> >> Kmods SIG (see https://sigs.centos.org/kmods/) as a community project.
> >>
> >> They were building it first for Stream 9 and later asked to also build
> >> for/against RHEL9 kernel when it was available (see
> >> https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/786)
> >>
> >> Kind Regards,
> >>
> >
> > Oups, realizing that I replied with same URL you gave and (I'll blame
> > lack of coffee effect :-) ) my brain translated initially to
> > artifacts/rpms that can be found on
> > http://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/9/kmods/ ...
> > But answer is still correct but now more complete as you see where
> > built/signed pkgs are landing too (even if that was in the infra tracker
> > ticket)
> >
>
> In addition to what Fabian already mentioned:
>
> The Kmods SIG does by now provide all packages it provides for Stream 9
> also for RHEL9. However, there is no easy way for you to enable the
> Kmods SIG's repositories on RHEL9 (yet) as SIGs can not (yet) provide
> centos-release-* packages for RHEL9 (and its clones) [1].
>
> In case you want to use any package provided by the Kmods SIG for RHEL9
> you have to manually add its repositories for now, e.g. by copying [2]
> to /etc/yum.repos.d/centos-kmods.repo
> Note that you also need to copy the Kmods SIG's GPG key [3] to
> /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Kmods
>
> We hope to be able to provide a centos-release-kmods package soon which
> should then allow you to consume the Kmods SIG's content after a simple
> dnf install https://mirror.stream.centos.org/... command similar to how
> you can easily enable EPEL.
>
>
> [1]: https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/643
> [2]:
> https://gitlab.com/CentOS/kmods/rpms/centos-release-kmods/-/raw/c9/centos-kmods.repo
> [3]: https://www.centos.org/keys/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Kmods
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