[Rdo-list] Fedora release mixup in Havana Repo

[Sandro "red" Mathys]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Alan Pevec <apevec at redhat.com> wrote:

> > The Fedora repo for the Havana-2 packages is mixed up a bit. While the
> repo
> > is called fedora-19, the packages in it are almost all built for F20
> (i.e.
> > they have fc20 in their dist tag). That's a bit worrisome, as things
> could
> > get different enough between a F19 and F20 build host so things start
> > misbehaving or failing otherwise. Is there a chance to actually build F19
> > packages on F19 build hosts?
>
> It worked between f18/f19 for Grizzly, do you see anything actually
> getting different between f19/f20?


Not right now, but I wouldn't necessarily want to wait until we run into
unpredictable issue as they tend to cost a lot of people a lot of agony.
Just saying. Mostly working with EL6 myself, so I probably won't be that
person and therefore don't care too much. ;)


> > Also, since F20 packages are apparently being built, I wonder why no
> > fedora-20 repo is created.
>
> For f20 you can just use Rawhide repos for now and f20 repos, when it
> branches.
> For Grizzly, we had fedora-19 symlink at some point but removed it to
> encourage usage for Rawhide instead.


Oh, I didn't notice they were built into Rawhide as well. My bad.

Encouraging works better when people know about it, though. Maybe put a
README in a fedora-20 folder or so? Just in case someone else is as stupid
as I was... :)


> > At the same time, it should be noted that Packstack is currently not
> > working on un-branched F20, i.e. Rawhide. Three Puppet modules need each
> a
> > fix, which have been sent upstream now. The rather small issue is that
> the
> > operatingsystemrelease fact does not return an Integer as expected but
> the
> > string "Rawhide" on such systems.
>
> CCing Martin, Packstack maintainer to include those fixes in Rawhide
> builds.
>

Packstack folks are informed already:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995872

-- Sandro
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