Re: [elrepo] Question about EL8 testing lifecycle

2019-11-05 Thread Akemi Yagi 
On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 5:38 AM Trevor Hemsley  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
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Re: [elrepo] Question about EL8 testing lifecycle

2019-11-05 Thread Trevor Hemsley 
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

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