On 3/6/19 12:25 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-03-06 at 18:13 +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote:
>> On 06. 03. 19 18:01, Steven A. Falco wrote:
>>> I'm new to this list, but I have been building packages for KiCad for a
>>> little while now. I have a question about rawhide; is it in a freeze right
>>> now?
>>>
>>> The reason I ask is that I built kicad-5.1.0-0.1.rc2.fc31 on koji back on
>>> March 2, but I don't see it (or any other fc31) packages on
>>> dl.fedoraproject.org in the rawhide area. I'm sure this is perfectly
>>> normal, but I don't know what to expect.
>>>
>>> If someone could please educate me or point me to documentation on how this
>>> works, I'd appreciate it.
>>
>> Hey. I don't know if this is documented or just tribal knowledge, but there
>> is
>> this process called a "compose" - it composes the images and repositories
>> from
>> packages in Koji.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide
>
> "Each day (or sometimes more than once per day) , a full 'compose' of
> the tree is attempted. This will usually result in the creation of all
> or most of the usual install, live and disk images, installer trees and
> so forth. The composes are synced to the /fedora/linux/development/
> directory on the mirrors, and you can find the images there."
>
> Later on there's the section
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide#Producing_Rawhide ,
> which includes more detail, but also talks about a mechanism which
> hasn't actually been activated yet...I will tweak it a bit.
>
>> If it doesn't compose, there is no update in the repo.
>>
>> And it has been broken since 2019-02-17:
>>
>> https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/
>>
>> see STATUS file in each dir.
>>
>> Also see issues reported at:
>>
>> https://pagure.io/dusty/failed-composes/issues
>>
>> (search for Fedora-Rawhide and DOOMED)
>
> To be clear, it's not that no-one is trying to fix it. Releng and QA
> folks have been investigating and fixing the problems the whole time -
> we've probably fixed about a dozen different ones. The problem is that
> every time we fix *one* issue, a new package shows up in the mean time
> and breaks something else. Since each compose attempt takes about 10
> hours, this is a slow and painful cycle when it happens...
>
Thanks for all the replies. I didn't know about the connection between
(successful) composes and repo contents. It makes sense now.
Steve
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