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Bug 2005139 - major versioned latest compose symlink
Summary: major versioned latest compose symlink
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: distribution
Version: CentOS Stream
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: RHEL Program Management
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-09-16 21:47 UTC by Carl George 🤠
Modified: 2024-09-15 07:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2024-09-15 07:29:09 UTC
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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-97384 0 None None None 2021-09-16 21:49:14 UTC

Description Carl George 🤠 2021-09-16 21:47:08 UTC 
Description of problem:
We currently have a latest-CentOS-Stream symlink in https://composes.stream.centos.org/production/ pointing to the latest compose.  Without an equivalent symlink including the major version (e.g. latest-CentOS-Stream-9), it's not clear what will happen when a new major version exists, or how people can reference the latest compose for each major version.


Additional info:
I'm working on code changes to fedscm_admin to support epel9-next.  Currently that tool blocks epelX and epelX-next branch requests based on packages that are in RHEL.  I'd like to have it check CentOS Stream compose metadata to block epelX-next branch requests.  I'm proceeding with that using the current latest-CentOS-Stream symlink, but in the future it needs to be switched to something that limits to a major version.
Comment 1 Troy Dawson 2022-11-02 14:29:55 UTC 
This is just a quick ping to say that this is being discussed.
There are a couple of proposals for a solution and we're seeing which is best for the build environment.
Comment 2 Troy Dawson 2022-12-07 15:44:38 UTC 
After much testing and probing of ODCS we have determined that we will have the following structure.

NOTE:  This is not implemented yet.  I do not have an estimate of when it will be finished.

The new structure will be

stream-{8,9,10}/{test,development,production}/latest-CentOS-Stream/

An example is currently available
https://composes.stream.centos.org/stream-9/test/latest-CentOS-Stream/

The base {test,development,production} directories will become symlinks and point to the latest stream release.
Thus production/ will point to stream-9/production for now, and when CentOS Stream 10 is released, production/ will then point to stream-10/production

Again, this is not implemented yet.  It should be before February 2023, but how much before, we currently don't know.
Comment 4 Troy Dawson 2023-02-14 14:17:45 UTC 
The CentOS Stream 8 stuff is there, but it currently isn't being used in production yet.  But if you wanted to start getting scripts pointing to it you can.
https://composes.stream.centos.org/stream-8/development/
https://composes.stream.centos.org/stream-8/production/
Comment 5 Troy Dawson 2023-03-13 15:58:45 UTC 
I am going to close this.  I don't know how long it will be before we manage to get CentOS Stream 9 over to the stream-9 directory.  It might not happen until CentOS Stream 10 starts happening.  But I don't feel right leaving this open.

Currently:
CentOS Stream 8 composes:
https://composes.stream.centos.org/stream-8/development/latest-CentOS-Stream/
https://composes.stream.centos.org/stream-8/production/latest-CentOS-Stream/
CentOS Stream 9 composes:
https://composes.stream.centos.org/development/latest-CentOS-Stream/
https://composes.stream.centos.org/production/latest-CentOS-Stream/

At some point in the future:
CentOS Stream 8 composes:
https://composes.stream.centos.org/stream-8/development/latest-CentOS-Stream/
https://composes.stream.centos.org/stream-8/production/latest-CentOS-Stream/
CentOS Stream 9 composes:
https://composes.stream.centos.org/stream-9/development/latest-CentOS-Stream/
https://composes.stream.centos.org/stream-9/production/latest-CentOS-Stream/
CentOS Stream 10 composes:
https://composes.stream.centos.org/development/latest-CentOS-Stream/
https://composes.stream.centos.org/production/latest-CentOS-Stream/
https://composes.stream.centos.org/stream-10/development/latest-CentOS-Stream/
https://composes.stream.centos.org/stream-10/production/latest-CentOS-Stream/
Comment 6 Carl George 🤠 2023-03-15 20:32:22 UTC 
I'd like to keep this bug open until this is completed.  After it's completed I need to submit changes to fedpkg and fedscm-admin for epel9/epel10 branch checks, and it would be nice to have this bug being closed as the reminder to go do that.
Comment 8 Troy Dawson 2023-03-15 20:47:14 UTC 
Sounds good.
I expect we'll get stream-9 to be transitioned before we have to deal with stream-10.  Otherwise it will be a bit of a mess.
But I'll keep this open until we get everything in place.
Comment 10 Troy Dawson 2023-08-16 13:18:27 UTC 
I've updated the stale date.
I don't think this will be completely fixed/done until CentOS Stream 10 starts getting composes built.  That won't happen for 6 months to a year.  So I've extended the stale date.
Comment 11 RHEL Program Management 2024-09-15 07:29:09 UTC 
After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.
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