CentOS virt - Mar 2019 - CentOS 7.6 and Xen 4.6 / centos-release-xen broken

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 06:39:59PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen
wrote:
> Hello George,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 12:06:49PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > In order to make sure SIG content is "fresh", whenever a new
version
> > of CentOS comes out, content is discarded automatically unless SIG
> > chairs specifically request it to be moved over.
> > 
> > At the moment, Xen has three repos that are under consideration to be
moved up:
> > 
> > virt/x86_64/xen-46
> > virt/x86_64/xen-48
> > virt/x86_64/xen-410
> > 
> > I'll request xen-48 and xen-410 to be updated for sure, but I
wanted
> > to gauge how much interest there was in xen-46.  If you have strong
> > feelings about xen-46, let me know (and perhaps consider volunteering
> > to maintain the packages).
> > 
> 
> It seems currently "centos-release-xen" package is broken in
CentOS7,
> it points to xen-46 repo, which isn't available anymore in CentOS 7.6:
> 
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/virt/x86_64/
> 
> 	-> xen-48/
> 	-> xen-410/
> 
> 
> # yum clean all
> # yum search centos-release-xen
> ..
> centos-release-xen.x86_64 : CentOS Virt SIG Xen repo configs
> centos-release-xen-48.x86_64 : CentOS Virt Sig Xen repo configs for Xen 4.8
> centos-release-xen-common.x86_64 : CentOS Virt Sig Xen support files
> ..
> 
> # yum install centos-release-xen
> # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Xen.repo 
> 
> # CentOS-Xen.repo
> #
> # Please see http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/Xen4 for more 
> # information
> 
> [centos-virt-xen-46]
> name=CentOS-$releasever - xen
> baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/virt/$basearch/xen-46
> gpgcheck=1
> enabled=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Virtualization
> 
> [centos-virt-xen-46-testing]
> name=CentOS-$releasever - xen - testing
>
baseurl=http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/$releasever/virt/$basearch/xen-46
> gpgcheck=0
> enabled=0
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Virtualization
> 
> 
> I guess two things should happen in CentOS7:
> 
> 1) Publish centos-release-xen-410 package
>
Ah, actually it's there already in xen-48 and xen-410 dirs, but not in
CentOS extras.

> 2) Update centos-release-xen package to point to.. 410 ? 
> 
So it seems the "centos-release-xen" package in "extras"
repo has the xen-46 reference in it.
So we should update the package in extras.


Thanks,

-- Pasi
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Pasi
> 
> > Thanks,
> >  -George
> > 
>

On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 4:50 PM Pasi K?rkk?inen <pasik at iki.fi>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 06:39:59PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
> > Hello George,
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 12:06:49PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> > > Hey all,
> > >
> > > In order to make sure SIG content is "fresh", whenever
a new version
> > > of CentOS comes out, content is discarded automatically unless
SIG
> > > chairs specifically request it to be moved over.
> > >
> > > At the moment, Xen has three repos that are under consideration
to be moved up:
> > >
> > > virt/x86_64/xen-46
> > > virt/x86_64/xen-48
> > > virt/x86_64/xen-410
> > >
> > > I'll request xen-48 and xen-410 to be updated for sure, but I
wanted
> > > to gauge how much interest there was in xen-46.  If you have
strong
> > > feelings about xen-46, let me know (and perhaps consider
volunteering
> > > to maintain the packages).
> > >
> >
> > It seems currently "centos-release-xen" package is broken in
CentOS7,
> > it points to xen-46 repo, which isn't available anymore in CentOS
7.6:
> >
> > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/virt/x86_64/
> >
> >       -> xen-48/
> >       -> xen-410/
> >
> >
> > # yum clean all
> > # yum search centos-release-xen
> > ..
> > centos-release-xen.x86_64 : CentOS Virt SIG Xen repo configs
> > centos-release-xen-48.x86_64 : CentOS Virt Sig Xen repo configs for
Xen 4.8
> > centos-release-xen-common.x86_64 : CentOS Virt Sig Xen support files
> > ..
> >
> > # yum install centos-release-xen
> > # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Xen.repo
> >
> > # CentOS-Xen.repo
> > #
> > # Please see http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/Xen4 for more
> > # information
> >
> > [centos-virt-xen-46]
> > name=CentOS-$releasever - xen
> >
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/virt/$basearch/xen-46
> > gpgcheck=1
> > enabled=1
> > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Virtualization
> >
> > [centos-virt-xen-46-testing]
> > name=CentOS-$releasever - xen - testing
> >
baseurl=http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/$releasever/virt/$basearch/xen-46
> > gpgcheck=0
> > enabled=0
> > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Virtualization
> >
> >
> > I guess two things should happen in CentOS7:
> >
> > 1) Publish centos-release-xen-410 package
> >
>
> Ah, actually it's there already in xen-48 and xen-410 dirs, but not in
CentOS extras.
>
>
> > 2) Update centos-release-xen package to point to.. 410 ?
> >
>
> So it seems the "centos-release-xen" package in
"extras" repo has the xen-46 reference in it.
> So we should update the package in extras.
Sorry, missed this -- yes, we've been trying to get the powers that be
to update it for some time; we did finally manage to get it updated a
week or two ago.  Could you give it a try now?

 -George

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 01:32:38PM +0000, George Dunlap
wrote:
> > >
> > > It seems currently "centos-release-xen" package is
broken in CentOS7,
> > > it points to xen-46 repo, which isn't available anymore in
CentOS 7.6:
> > >
> > > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/virt/x86_64/
> > >
> > >       -> xen-48/
> > >       -> xen-410/
> > >
> > >
> > > # yum clean all
> > > # yum search centos-release-xen
> > > ..
> > > centos-release-xen.x86_64 : CentOS Virt SIG Xen repo configs
> > > centos-release-xen-48.x86_64 : CentOS Virt Sig Xen repo configs
for Xen 4.8
> > > centos-release-xen-common.x86_64 : CentOS Virt Sig Xen support
files
> > > ..
> > >
> > > # yum install centos-release-xen
> > > # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Xen.repo
> > >
> > > # CentOS-Xen.repo
> > > #
> > > # Please see http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/Xen4 for more
> > > # information
> > >
> > > [centos-virt-xen-46]
> > > name=CentOS-$releasever - xen
> > >
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/virt/$basearch/xen-46
> > > gpgcheck=1
> > > enabled=1
> > >
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Virtualization
> > >
> > > [centos-virt-xen-46-testing]
> > > name=CentOS-$releasever - xen - testing
> > >
baseurl=http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/$releasever/virt/$basearch/xen-46
> > > gpgcheck=0
> > > enabled=0
> > >
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Virtualization
> > >
> > >
> > > I guess two things should happen in CentOS7:
> > >
> > > 1) Publish centos-release-xen-410 package
> > >
> >
> > Ah, actually it's there already in xen-48 and xen-410 dirs, but
not in CentOS extras.
> >
> >
> > > 2) Update centos-release-xen package to point to.. 410 ?
> > >
> >
> > So it seems the "centos-release-xen" package in
"extras" repo has the xen-46 reference in it.
> > So we should update the package in extras.
> 
> Sorry, missed this -- yes, we've been trying to get the powers that be
> to update it for some time; we did finally manage to get it updated a
> week or two ago.  Could you give it a try now?
> 
Indeed, now "centos-release-xen" on centos7-extras gives xen-48 repo.
That's better :)


Thanks a lot,

-- Pasi

>  -George
>