[Pulp-list] Update Required: Repository Structure Changes

[Jeff Ortel]

Excellent, Jay.  Thanks for updating the bot so quickly.

I added a write up on the wiki under the "Development" section.  Please review when you 
get a chance.  Jay and I will walk through it at the deep dive on Thursday.

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/pulp/wiki/BranchAndRepoLayout

On 02/07/2012 12:01 PM, Jay Dobies wrote:
> I hate prefixing e-mail subjects with urgency like that, but RPMs are moving and you'll
> need to take action to be able to keep access to them.
>
> With v1 coming soon, I needed to reorganize the repositories on
> repos.fedorapeople.org/pulp/pulp.
>
> There will be two main branches off the root of the pulp directory. Within each branch are
> two sets of repositories, "stable" and "testing".
>
> * v1 - The latest in the v1.x codebase, so 1.0 to start but potentially 1.1 and so on.
> * v1/stable - The current production version of Pulp (doesn't exist yet).
> * v1/testing - Candidate builds for 1.x builds. In the beginning, the v1.0 candidates will
> be in here, but if we have need for a 1.1 and beyond those candidate builds will be in
> here as well (also doesn't exist yet, but soon).
>
> * dev - Builds off of git master.
> * dev/stable - Our current concept of a "community release". These are tied into our
> sprints and somewhat tested but not to the level of the v1 stable releases.
> * dev/testing - Our bi-weekly QE builds. Only for the most daring of Pulp users.
>
> With each of the above 4 branches are builds for Fedora 15/16 and RHEL 5/6, both i386 and
> x86_64.
>
> I've already updated the two .repo files at the pulp root to include definitions for all 4
> repositories. The v1 repositories are currently disabled since we're not at the point of
> building them yet. Therefore, the community releases repository is the only one enabled by
> default in the .repo files, which was the behavior before the change.
>
> That means in most cases the only steps you need to take are to re-download the
> appropriate .repo file. I'm leaving the existing structure in place until Friday, Feb
> 10th, after which the old .repo files will not longer work.
>
> Ping me (jdob) with any questions.
>