[Libosinfo] [PATCH osinfo-db 0/6] centos and scientific linux

Fabiano Fidêncio fidencio at redhat.com
Tue Mar 5 12:52:58 UTC 2019


On Tue, 2019-03-05 at 13:48 +0100, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-03-05 at 13:22 +0100, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> > On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 18:41 -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> > > This series adds:
> > > 
> > > * centos5 entries
> > > * centos6 <tree> data
> > > * scientificlinux 5.X
> > > * scientificlinux 6.X
> > > * scientificlinux 7.X
> > > 
> > > No iso data is added, just URLs. I'm trying to get osinfo-db to
> > > have
> > > all the treeinfo coverage that virt-install has.
> > 
> > Cole, in the general the series look good (apart from one change
> > that
> > has to be for "Add scientificlinux-7.X".
> > 
> > There's one thing that I'm interested to know, though:
> > - Is x.y considered EOL whenever x.(y+1) is released? I mean, will
> > 7.6
> > be considered EOL whenever 7.7 is released? If so, we'd also have
> > to
> > add the EOL to the 7.x entries.
> > 
> > Anyways, for patches #1 to #5:
> > Reviewed-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com> 
> 
> Actually, let me take my "Reviewed-by" back.
> Please, take a look at 5cac22bc68[0].
> 
> There, the commit message states:
> centos: Remove URLs pointing to vault.centos.org
> 
> As vault.centos.org doesn't keep any ISO anymore, let's just remove
> them from our db.
> 
> Along with the URLs removal, let's remove together the tree's as
> those
> can't be accessed without a valid URL.
> 
> Removing all the vault.centos.org URLs matches with the
> recommendation
> given by CentOS folks in #centos-devel:
> "so in short, if some program links to vault, it's most likely not a
> good idea and may not even work"
> 
> [0]: 
> https://gitlab.com/libosinfo/osinfo-db/commit/5cac22bc6852d56988ff4be090551c5ec2f3f108
> 
> So, I guess the path to take is to drop #1 and #3.

Errr, dropping the URLs from #1 and #3, but keeping the tree/treeinfo.

Best Regards,
-- 
Fabiano Fidêncio




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