[Starlingx-discuss] Use koji to create repository with required RPMS

[Arevalo, Mario Alfredo C]

Hi Jesus,

You are touching a very important point related to building process. I think, one
of the most painful concerns is which mirror has to deal with the constantly loss of
tracking of some packages due to the dependence with multiple third party host sites. I think the
first approach sounds good and is an achievable goal. The packages described in the
third parties file are an excellent staring point due to they are more prone to disappear and
each time will be more complicated to find a secure copy.

Best regards.
Mario. 
 
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From: Ornelas Aguayo, Jesus [jesus.ornelas.aguayo at intel.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 11:23 AM
To: starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io
Subject: [Starlingx-discuss] Use koji to create repository with required RPMS

Hi all,

As we know we use the centos-mirror-tools from the stx-tools repo to download the required RPMS to build StarlingX, this tool downloads the packages from the following list files:

Filename                                Packages        Description
rpms_from_3rd_parties.lst               9               Third party packages without repository (downloaded by wget)
rpms_from_centos_3rd_parties.lst.       152             Third party packages with repository
rpms_from_centos_repo.lst               1699            Centos packages with repository

As time goes by, Some packages disappear and we need to replace the repositories or urls , and in some scenarios the specific package version disappears. This can be fixed by getting the source code of the packages mentioned above and their dependencies ( ~3900 packages) and use koji to build the required versions, this way we can host a repository with the required RPMS and SRPMS to build starlingX .

I would like to open a discussion of this proposal, the first approach would be start hosting the rpms_from_3rd_parties.lst(downloaded by wget) and replacing the package repository in the centos-mirror-tools list, so changes will be gradually. Once this is completed we can follow  the same process for the the rpms_from_centos_3rd_parties.lst and ending with the rms_from_centos_repo.lst.

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