updates in builders?

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Tue Dec 11 15:03:59 UTC 2007



On 11.12.2007 15:35, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:28:14 +0100
> Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> 
>> The proper answer IMHO is to do what we planed from the start, but
>> never realized: create per dist dirs like epel/5.1. When 5.2 ships to
>> a "cp -al 5.1 5.2", update the builders and ship all newly build
>> packages in the 5.2 dir. Once CentOS 5.2 is out delete the 5.1 dir.
>> The only problem: we'd need to push security updates to both the 5.1
>> and 5.2 dir during the delta where CentOS catches up.
>> BTW, we will likely cause problems for RHEL/RHN customers in any case
>> in rare situations when RH ships updates because we don't get new RHEL
>> update releases in advance -- thus we might now and then need a day or
>> two to catch up in case something from EPEL needs to be build against
>> a new updated package (firefox, pidgin, ...) from RHEL.
> This is where RHEL z-stream updates will come into play.

That's another issue. But there is one thing about them that I never
understood: when does RH do them? Only for selected releases?

And BTW: I'm wondering if EPEL should just ignore them for now; sure,
would be nice to support them, but I suspect we don't have the manpower
nor the tools to properly support them right now. Yeah, that sucks, but
there are bigger problems to solve first IMHO.

> Please ping me for the next EPEL meeting as I'd like to discuss this
> during the meeting.

Sure, will do (next meeting will be next weeks Wednesday at 18:00 UTC,
in case it matters), but maybe you can find the time to explain your
thoughts first here on the list first over the next few days -- having
the major thoughts shared before discussing a issue on IRC IMHO makes
everything a whole lot easier and quicker. And mailing lists have no
timezone problems ;-)

CU
knurd




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