On 08/02/2011 09:14 AM, Jon Stanley wrote:
We've got 3 or 4 buckets of content that we care about as an OS
engineering group. First, is the stuff that is on the path to
production for the current build that we're working on.
This sounds like Fedora's updates repo.
Second, stuff
that's released from Red Hat - i.e. whatever exists in RHN channels
right now.
This sounds like Fedora's release repo that is never changed after
release (but in your case it may change, but that's ok).
Third, is beta stuff that we get from Red Hat - some of
which may never see the light of day in prod. We also have our own
content that we put into each of these.
This sounds like Fedora's updates-testing repo.
The problem lies in how to maintain these three separate repos,
considering that when we're working on a build, we continue to get
errata from Red Hat. For some period of time, we'll just blindly take
the updates into the next release. But after some certain "freeze"
point, we cherry pick stuff from the current Red Hat bits. Then
there's the beta bits that we need to be able to build in the lab, and
in a worst case scenario (hasn't happened, but I can see where it
might) we cherry pick from the beta bits to go to prod.
How do people handle this? I don't believe that I'm in a particularly
unique situation.
I may not be understanding you correctly so please feel free to ignore
me, but your situation sounds very similar to Fedora's workflow. If you
want to automate it you could look into bodhi integration. I have not
gone down that road as I don't have to keep up with that many packages
yet, but you may find it to be a solution for you.