On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 5:38 AM Trevor Hemsley <thems...@voiceflex.com> wrote: > > On 05/11/2019 12:54, Robert Callicotte wrote: > > Hello, > > > > How long are packages kept in testing repos before being promoted to > > "production"? What criteria have to be met before moving packages out > > of testing? My company has a need to verify btrfs capabilities on > > Centos8. We are willing to provide feedback and file bug reports > > against the packages in the testing repos. > > BTRFS was marked as deprecated by Red Hat in RHEL 7.4 or so. There have > been no updates to the kernel btrfs code in the CentOS 7 kernels since > the end of 2017 and it is not part of the RHEL/CentOS 8.x kernels at all. > > Trevor
There is a good reason why the packages stayed in the testing repository. :) They were supposed to be removed from there but had been forgotten. :( We built the package because of a request to provide kmod-btrfs in ELRepo's bug tracker earlier this year. However it soon tuned out that there were problems. Here's an excerpt from the bug entry: [quote] Technical issues aside, I feel that we should not go forward with kmod-btrfs. I have build the modules using the code taken from the RHEL-8 GA kernel. Because btrfs is not enabled, RH will not update the code, that is, it is "frozen". Providing a kmod package based on this code is far from ideal. On the other hand, backporting the code from a newer kernel and maintaining it is not something we can offer. The following article explains quite well why RH decided not to offer the btrfs file system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14907771 [/quote] Akemi _______________________________________________ elrepo mailing list elrepo@lists.elrepo.org http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo
