On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Yasha Karant <[email protected]> wrote:

>  I  have been following this thread as we will be transitioning to EL7 as
> it becomes available from SL.  From the Red Hat CentOS web site:
>


> This is amazingly helpful. In the past I’ve spent an enormous amount of
> time trying to figure out the appropriate compile options to get newer
> versions of software working, and wishing that CentOS had something like
> Arch’s ABS – now you do.
>

Access to the git resources of the Red Hat published packages is irrelevant
to the build environment. That material is all available in the SRPM's.
It's the "mock" and relevant toolchains, used to build the hierarchy of
critical depdneencies to be able to run mock and build the other
components, that is still unpublished.


>   End CentoOS infomercial.
>
> What is the reality of the above -- yes, I have read this SL thread in so
> far as it has appeared in my inbox to date.  Is this truly "amazingly
> helpful" or is this to be a major impediment?  Will it only "cause some
> users to change their workflows a bit", or is this a much, much larger than
> "a bit" change?  The answer to this question must come from the actual SL
> porting team(s), presumably at Fermilab and CERN, and as farmed out to
> those directly working with the Fermilab/CERN porting/support groups.
>
> Yasha Karant
>

There are trade offs. A git history of the changes needed to compile foe
CentOS is potentially useful, A lack of canonical "this tag from is from
RHEL, the other stuff is all from CentOS" is likely to create confusion
about which bits were published or added by whom. If Scientific Linux is
going to built from RHEL and add its unique features, rather than rely on
CentOS as an immediate upstream, this is going to need attention.  It's
going to be especially awkward if they elect not to publish GPG signed tags
to go with the particular software updates.

I'm staring at
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/7Server/en/os/README, which
says that the FTP repository for RHEL SRPM mirrors will no longer be
available. This is going to make manipulating roughly 3000 distinct git
repositories instead of one bulky SRPM directory rather critical. And git
has no way to report the "list of all the git repositories on this server",
they're all considered unique. Instead that eye-stabbing interface at
http://git.centos.org/ will have to be parsed to extract the list of actual
repositories, many components of which may be renamed or discarded in
future RHEL 7 releases.

This is going to be a lot of work.



> On 06/10/2014 05:11 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
> I'm staring at 
> http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/6/red-hat-unveils-rhel-7,
> Looks like we can start testing trying to build it. Is there anything
> I can do to help?
>
>
>

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