[ale] CentOS 7 (Or: How I suck at Torrents)

[Jim Kinney]

Ah. Yes. Pre-release build run.

Change your repo to select the new on as primary and run a mess of symlinks
to a "current". From that, you'll need to manually rebuild the repodata
files. The syb-minor patch numbers should be changing on each build so a
reposync will be valid.
The real pain point is they are not signed so the should not be used for a
later system.
You could just build a .torrent file for each daily drop.
On Jun 17, 2014 6:32 PM, "Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

>  On 06/17/2014 01:23 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> There is no torrent available for the download. They use reposync. Once
> the initial repo pull is done it's like rsync, tiny.
>
>
> I know that. I was talking about *creating* one, for the RC repo they
> have online.
>
>  By using reposync, it'll setup your repodata correctly.
>
>
> Yes, but they're not *updating* the repo.  Right now, they're publishing
> a whole-new-repo for every "build" of the nightly CentOS system.  They are
> not gpg signing, and because they're whole-system, forced rebuilds, the
> BuildID embedded in every ELF will change, meaning every RPM will be
> different.  Meaning that the repo database will show that all packages have
> changed and... reposync isn't any better than wget is at this point.  :-)
>
> My thinking was, other people might want to play with the prereleases. I'm
> doing so because I simply mirrored the 6.5 GB repo and am using that to
> install it on several systems in testing setups at the moment. (It works
> rather nicely.)  I figure I can't be the only one to want that, and since
> there is only a single point to mirror from, I thought it'd be nice to
> establish a mirroring infrastructure for the RCs.
>
> CentOS won't fan-out to mirrors until they are far more ready than they
> are now.  I'd figure at least a couple weeks.
>
>     — Mike
>
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