Upgrade of Copr servers - 2020-02-06 8:30 UTC (Thursday)

[Pavel Raiskup]

There will be an outage, starting at:

    $ date --date='2020-02-06 8:30 UTC'

which will last approximately 2 hours.

Reason for outage
=================

Upgrade of copr packages on Copr servers, to get in bug-fixes and new features.


Affected Services
=================

copr-frontend - https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org
copr-backend - https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/

Though the yum/dnf repositories (the copr-backend part which is consumed by
end-user by 'dnf copr enable ...') should stay available during this outage.

Ticket Link
===========

https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8612


Contact Information
===================

@praiskup

Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for
this outage above.

[Pavel Raiskup]

The update was smooth this time, and everything seems to be running again.
So it is over.  We'll post release notes later today.

Thanks and happy building!
Pavel

On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:54:09 PM CET Pavel Raiskup wrote:
>  There will be an outage, starting at:
>  
>      $ date --date='2020-02-06 8:30 UTC'
>  
>  which will last approximately 2 hours.
>  
>  Reason for outage
>  =================
>  
>  Upgrade of copr packages on Copr servers, to get in bug-fixes and new features.
>  
>  
>  Affected Services
>  =================
>  
>  copr-frontend - https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org
>  copr-backend - https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/
>  
>  Though the yum/dnf repositories (the copr-backend part which is consumed by
>  end-user by 'dnf copr enable ...') should stay available during this outage.
>  
>  Ticket Link
>  ===========
>  
>  https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8612
>  
>  
>  Contact Information
>  ===================
>  
>  @praiskup
>  
>  Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for
>  this outage above.
>  
>  
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HighlightsfromthelatestCoprrelease

[Pavel Raiskup]

Hello,

recently (on Feb 06, 2020) a new Copr release landed production.  Here is
the list of visible changes:

- Users now can build packages against explicitly enabled modules.  Go to
  `Project -> Settings -> Build Options -> [Edit] button (near _enabled_
  chroot) -> Enable module: textarea`.  Note that fedora modular
  repositories do not behave entirely good in mock (and copr) so we had to
  disable before by default.  So to actually bring the modules into copr,
  you need to also configure the "external repositories" textarea for the
  fedora-modular repo.

- Module builds were historically done only against Fedora dist-git.  Now
  the `copr-cli build-module` command was enhanced to accept `--distgit`
  option which allows users to specify which dist-git instance to build
  the module against.  For now we have only the "fedora" distgit
  configured.  If you have ideas what external dist-git we should add to
  our configuration, let us know.

- The EOL chroot policy scripts responsible for notifying users about
  upcoming removals were fixed, users should now always be notified - and
  if for some reason they are not, the EOL chroot will not be removed.

- Several fixes were done in copr-rpmbuild so the builds should be more
  reliable, especially when the builder VM is heavily re-used for many
  builds.

- News from yesterday - @msuchy enabled CDN for copr backend repositories.
  You, or your users, likely want to re-enable the copr repositories
  (dnf copr enable <owner/project>).

Happy building!
Pavel