Re: [atomic-devel] Looking for stability when composing trees

[Mark Dyer <mark MarkysHouse com>]

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 <jbrooks redhat com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Mark Dyer <mark markyshouse com> 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.
> >