[Starlingx-discuss] Centos Distro Direction

Cordoba Malibran, Erich erich.cordoba.malibran at intel.com
Wed Dec 5 17:47:52 UTC 2018


BTW, I created this story to update the installer from CentOS 7.4 to
CentOS 7.6, in case anyone wants to participate.

https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2004516

-Erich

On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 08:42 +0000, Lin, Shuicheng wrote:
> It seems just rpm package is released, but srpm is not released yet.
> I will keep check it recently.
> 
> Best Regards
> Shuicheng
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Saul Wold [mailto:sgw at linux.intel.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 1:03 AM
> To: Xie, Cindy <cindy.xie at intel.com>; starlingx-discuss at lists.starlin
> gx.io
> Subject: Re: [Starlingx-discuss] Centos Distro Direction
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/3/18 7:43 AM, Xie, Cindy wrote:
> > Seems like that CentOS 7 just announced 1810 release today (guess
> > this is 7.6):
> > > 
> 
> https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7.1810?highlight=%
> 28%28Manuals%7CReleaseNotes%7CCentOS7.1810%29%29
> > 
> 
> Yup, timing is!
> 
> Cindy, can you please put this on the agenda for the next non-
> openstack Distro meeting.
> 
> We also have a topic for the TSC (thanks BruceJ) the following
> morning, TSC members may want to start weighing in here regarding my
> initial proposal below, which we can talk more about on Thursday.
> 
> 
> Thanks
>     Sau!
> 
> 
> > thx. - cindy
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Saul Wold [mailto:sgw at linux.intel.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, December 1, 2018 7:49 AM
> > To: starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io
> > Subject: [Starlingx-discuss] Centos Distro Direction
> > 
> > 
> > Folks,
> > 
> > As we move forward into the spring release (Stein based), we will
> > also 
> > be dealing with another CentOS update.  RHEL has already released
> > the
> > 7.6 Update on Oct 30th, typically we should expect the CentOS 7.6
> > update shortl, about 30 days after RHEL releases.
> > 
> > We should do the 7.6 Update as we did the 7.5 Update on a feature
> > branch, it took about 2 months last time (including initial setup,
> > rebasing, and de-fuzzing), I expect it will be shorter this time
> > based on our past learning.
> > 
> > We should start out with creating the feature branches (I will work
> > with Dean on this) for stx-integ, stx-root, stx-tools, and stx-
> > upstream repos. When we start the work, we need to remember to
> > rebase the feature branches regularly and check for patch fuzzing
> > issues.
> > 
> > Cindy, can you please put this on your agenda for the next Non-
> > Openstack Distro meeting.
> > 
> > While on the topic of Cento Distro updates, many of you may have
> > heard 
> > that RHEL 8 Beta was announced on Nov 14 [0], while this is not a 
> > CentOS release we should start thinking about that upgrade as it
> > will 
> > be a larger effort as it includes the 4.18 kernel (alas not the
> > 4.19 
> > LTS
> > kernel) along with many other upgrades.  We should start a feature 
> > branch for CentOS 8 as well to do the updates, This will help
> > reduce 
> > some of the patch load from the backported patches.  Since we
> > don't 
> > know exactly when CentOS 8 will be available this should be a 
> > Train-based release target (Fall 2019) (at the earliest)
> > 
> > [0]
> > https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/powering-its-future-while-preserving
> > -pr
> > esent-introducing-red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-beta
> > 
> > Thanks
> >     Sau!
> > 
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