On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I wanted to put out there the plan for EL-6 branching and building. > > > whenever EL-6 beta is announced we will setup the base repos for building. > > we will also announce our intention to branch. > > Every package that is not orphaned in EL-5 will be branched for EL-6. there > will be an opt-out. place a file in your EL-5 branch called nobranch and > place in it the reason why. > > for instance python-hashlib is in EL-5 to support stronger hashed metadata for > the buildsystem. its part of newer pythons so my nobranch file will contain > "Exists in newer python" this is just a historical something so if someone > down the road questions why they can go and see > > We will give 2 weeks from announcement before we setup the cvs branches. this > will let us make sure anything thats in EL-6 gets nobranch files we will be > branching EL-6 branches from F-12 branches > It's probably an obvious comment but the EL-6 branches will copy EL-5 acls and owners.
Generally though sounds good. > the buildroot will start with an empty epel. and we will need to do a mass > rebuild of everything. we could do this one of two ways. releng initiated or > developer initiated. either way developers will be free to do there own > builds. and we will be able to do tagging to satisfy deps for bootstrapping. > I and probably others have a couple of circular build dependencies for %check only, so there will be some work to do - that's life. > > during the beta phase i would like to keep bodhi out of the way and do a > rawhide style unsigned nightly repo. once we get to GA we will sign all rpms > and go through bodhi. anything with broken deps being pushed to testing and > everything else in the inital stable repo. with bodhi used for updates going > forward. > > Comments, thoughts, and feedback welcome > > > Dennis > > > > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list > > -- Steve Traylen _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
