Docker And Docker-latest Packages On CentOS Virt SIG

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Moving this discussion to CentOS-virt@ as it’s upto the SIG to decide on how this moves ahead.

I’m hoping to have 2 new koji tag sets:

virt7-docker-fedora-* (will have fedora rpms rebuilt)
virt7-docker-el-* (will have rhel candidate builds before they are released or land in CentOS extras)

The -el-* repos will help to have Virt SIG as sort of an upstream and early QA
for both RHEL and CentOS extras.

If the SIG is ok with it, I’ll check with CBS guys to create these 2 tags.

See below message to CentOS-devel@ and http://CentOS-devel.1051824.n5.nabble.com/CentOS-devel-docker-and-docker-latest-packages-on-CentOS-Virt-SIG-td5712734.html for background

—– Forwarded message from Lokesh Mandvekar —

4 thoughts on - Docker And Docker-latest Packages On CentOS Virt SIG

  • I think having the RHEL version makes sense; but I’m not sure exactly what we gain from having a version labelled “fedora”. If someone wanted the Fedora docker, why wouldn’t they just install Fedora? And if in this case “Fedora” really just stands for “Recently stable docker”, then we should probably just come up with another name for it that describes it better (even if in the end it turns out to be a straight re-building of the Fedora RPM).

    -George

  • I pesonally do this kind of backporting, a *lot* with Perl and Python modules. They’re often sadly out of date on a RHEL production grade system, but switching to a Fedora base for your production environments can get really flakey, really fast due to the immense churn of that operating system.

  • Right, so one of the basic nice things about the CentOS SIGs is that all the stuff you don’t need to be current can be RHEL-stable, and the handful of things you do want to be current can be fresh.

    My main question is whether explicitly calling it “Fedora” is the right thing to do (even if in practice it’s just a re-build of the Fedora package).

    -George

  • I thinki it would get confusing fast. Let the ‘%changelog’ in the
    .spec file show the Fedora history, RPM ‘release’ reflect that it’s a more recent version and published by a CentOS SIG.