branches and cvs requests

[Jarod Wilson]

On Nov 9, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Jack Neely wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:58:36PM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> On Nov 9, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Jack Neely wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 04:39:32PM -0700, solarflow99 wrote:
>>>> I was wondering if the EL6 branch would become available sometime?  Is
>>>> there a better way to request new branches than adding block 33 and a
>>>> request?  I didn't get any response for a while on mine.
>>> 
>>> I recently spoke with Xavier directly to get access to the EL-6 branch
>>> on my packages.  I've got successful mockbuilds but it looks like plague
>>> isn't setup for EL-6 yet.
>>> 
>>> I've spoken to Thorsten about taking on some responsibilities for the
>>> EL-6 release as I'm interested in seeing us support that.  (Which
>>> includes working on kmodtool.)  However, I know the questions I was
>>> asking are not simple but I would like to move things forward.
>> 
>> I've got mock configs handy and a local RHEL6 beta tree, but it hasn't been wired up in plague yet. I'll try to devote some further attention to that relatively soon, but we may not want to be doing a whole lot of builds until we can build against a newer tree. Anyone have any idea on ETA for CentOS 6?
>> 
> 
> I can deploy a RHEL6 x86_64 VM pretty quickly after final release that
> could be used in the build system.  Would that be helpful?

More builders would be helpful in general, assuming someone has the time (and appropriate permissions/access) to integrate it into the build system, but it looks like there are some almost ready to come online relatively soon already, and I don't think builder capacity is the main issue we need to overcome to get things off the ground for RHEL6 anyway. The main issue is getting the RHEL6 build targets usable.

(Nb: the primary x86 builder has been running RHEL6 for a few months now).

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Jarod Wilson
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