[Starlingx-discuss] Centos Distro Direction

[Young, Ken]

Erich,

Wouldn’t the installer build script just use the new items or are significant changes required?

/KenY

On 2018-12-05, 12:49 PM, "Cordoba Malibran, Erich" <erich.cordoba.malibran at intel.com> wrote:

    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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