[Ci-users] CR and CiCo

Tue Aug 8 15:01:58 UTC 2017
Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>

On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 7:36 AM, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:
> On 08/08/17 01:39, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> with the next release coming up - the CR repos are going to get
>> populated ahead of the distro release itself - typically, this can be a
>> week or so ahead.
>>
>> What this means to cico tenants is that their machines, when yum
>> updated, will reflect the content in the next release. Any user, on or
>> off cico, with the cr-repo enabled, will be in the same situation.
>>
>> However, cbs.centos.org will NOT have the CR/ content added in till
>> AFTER the release is done for media. With a week to 10 day gap between
>> the two events, if you tenant needs to manage this issue, please do.
>>
>> However, if you do find issues in the builds and tests, please let us
>> know - a good goal is to have all SIG content validated ahead of the
>> next-release, or to handle any problems that the users might see, ahead
>> of time.
>>
>> please feel free to reach out on irc, lists, emails, phones etc i
>>
>> regards
>>
>

I'm a newbie here, so please bear with me while I try and understand.

> Just to add that
> - CR will be populated for x86_64, but will lack AltArch

What is the CR repo, and why will it lack AltArch?

> - there will be also a delay at the CBS/Builders side between x86_64
> (when it will be released and used in koji) and AltArch (released later
> and not in sync)

Can you help me understand the delay there as well?

josh