[Starlingx-discuss] on our mirror proposal/milestone

[Saul Wold]

On 07/26/2018 08:50 AM, Dean Troyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Scott Little
> <scott.little at windriver.com> wrote:
>> I'd caution you that the list of 'hard to get' packages is ever changing due
>> to both internal and external factors.  Certainly none of the EPEL content
>> is safe.
>>
>> In particular, for StarlingX releases, you'll probably want to snapshot all
>> packages that went into the release.
> 
> Exactly.  Scott, is there currently a record somewhere in the build
> tree or ISO of what was actually used?  I suppose in the ISO we can
> just look at the embedded repo, correct?
> 
> Related, is there anything currently recorded regarding the
> branch/commit of the git repos for a particular build?  What I think
> we might want to re-create a specific build might be a re-written repo
> manifest (default.xml) that includes tags or commit SHAs...
> 
Yes, getting a good manifest of the tarball related items would be the 
right thing to do.

I know we have mentioned the shifting sands of RPMs, should we also be 
concerned about any of the tarballs disappearing (due to version change) 
or git repos deleting branches that we have used?

Sau!

> dt
>