We considered making mirrors of all the repos with just the versions of packages that we want, but there were concerns about being able to go back to older versions and /or the complexity of maintaining yum mirrors for every version we release.
On Friday, July 1, 2016, Jason Brooks <jbro...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Mark Dyer <m...@markyshouse.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > We are evaluating Atomic Host, but our development has been knocked on > its > > ear several times by upstream changes to Atomic Host and friends. We > need a > > way to compose trees and be assured that we are getting a specific, > already > > tested collection of base packages. > > > > Based on how we accomplished this in our existing build environment using > > 'yum', we have done experiments with specifying versions for packages in > our > > treefiles hoping to force 'rpm-ostree compose tree' to pull specific > > versions, but got this error: > > > > Downloading metadata: 100% > > error: No package 'emacs-24.3-18.el7.x86_64' found > > > > Is there a way to do this? > > One way would be to maintain your own mirror of the packages, and not > include unwanted packages in that. > > It'd make sense for rpm-ostree to work the way you're trying to use > it, but after playing around w/ it a bit just now, I couldn't get this > to work, either. > > Jason > > > > > If this is the wrong place for questions like this, please point me in > the > > right direction. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Mark Dyer > > > > > > --- > > For what it is worth we are using CentOS on x86_64. > > the compose command line looks like this: > > > > rpm-ostree compose --repo=/srv/repo tree --proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8123 > > --add-metadata-string=version=3.20160701.141806-hw > > centos-atomic-host-abc.json > > > > The specified tree file includes the vanilla centos-atomic-host.json > file, > > defines 'osname' and 'ref' and has > > > > packages": ["emacs-24.3-18.el7.x86_64"] > > > > If more information would be useful, please let me know what you need. > > >
