Re: Contributing docs for maintaining and creating a Fedora remix

[Neal Gompa]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 7:19 AM, Aidan Kahrs <abkahrs(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Neal,
>  Bex is correct that the download server with the RPM repo and ISOs is a
>  separate machine from the machine used to build the RPMs and ISOs. The build
>  machine runs the latest version of Fedora and the download server runs
>  CentOS to give a measure of LTS support while still staying within the RHEL
>  family.
>  The download server could feasibly run any distribution.
>  Hope this clarifies.
>  
I'd still recommend not suggesting the usage of the legacy createrepo
(though I don't know why we haven't just made createrepo_c replace it
already...). The older createrepo has known issues with how it
generates metadata. createrepo_c is available via EPEL, so you can use
it with EL6 or EL7. And of course, it's available on Mageia 6 and
later and openSUSE Leap 42.2 and later.



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Contributing docs for maintaining and creating a Fedora remix

[Aidan Kahrs]

I as unaware. Guess that is what this review is for. I will update the
playbook and docs.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 7:39 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 7:19 AM, Aidan Kahrs
> <abkahrs(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > Neal,
>  > Bex is correct that the download server with the RPM repo and ISOs is a
>  > separate machine from the machine used to build the RPMs and ISOs. The
>  build
>  > machine runs the latest version of Fedora and the download server runs
>  > CentOS to give a measure of LTS support while still staying within the
>  RHEL
>  > family.
>  > The download server could feasibly run any distribution.
>  > Hope this clarifies.
>  >
>
>  I'd still recommend not suggesting the usage of the legacy createrepo
>  (though I don't know why we haven't just made createrepo_c replace it
>  already...). The older createrepo has known issues with how it
>  generates metadata. createrepo_c is available via EPEL, so you can use
>  it with EL6 or EL7. And of course, it's available on Mageia 6 and
>  later and openSUSE Leap 42.2 and later.
>
>
>
>  --
>  真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!
>