Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder

Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder by em500 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:44PM (#25449800)

> Red Hat publishes it's sources on https://git.centos.org. Those are then used to build CentOS Linux packages.

Have you checked if this repo actually works as intended? Because I was wondering if the git repo has RHEL or CentOS sources (or both). So I tried to find out myself instead of just throwing the question out there. It went roughly as follows:

- Let me check the sources of dracut (the RHEL installer) in https://git.centos.org/rpms/dracut. Files: empty, Commits: empty, Forks: empty, Branches and Releases: judging by the names they seem to be CentOS, not RHEL sources. And they're using git.centos.org just as a code dump, not for development. Fair.

- Let's see the actual code.

  git clone https://git.centos.org/rpms/dracut.git
  Cloning into 'dracut'...
  remote: Counting objects: 1673, done.
  remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1632/1632), done.
  remote: Total 1673 (delta 82), reused 1446 (delta 0)
  Receiving objects: 100% (1673/1673), 1.60 MiB | 2.08 MiB/s, done.
  Resolving deltas: 100% (82/82), done.
  warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

??? There's nothing there.

- Back to the web interface, https://git.centos.org/rpms/dracut/tree/c8 Reading .dracut.metadata, I guess the source is in SOURCES/dracut-049.tar.xz. But browsing the directory https://git.centos.org/rpms/dracut/blob/c8/f/SOURCES lists only patches, not the presumed source dracut-049.tar.xz

- Maybe it's under Releases? Let's check imports/c8/dracut-049-95.git20200804.el8 Clicking the source tree gets me back to the SOURCES dir with only patches, not good. Maybe the floppy-save button? https://git.centos.org/rpms/dracut/archive/imports/c8/dracut... -> 404-Not-Found. https://git.centos.org/rpms/dracut/archive/imports/c8/dracut... -> 404-Not-Found.

I'm not a professional dev, maybe I just don't understand. But is there a way to actually see/browse/download the dracut source code from CentOS 8.3 (let alone RHEL 8.3) from git.centos.org?

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Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder by kondbg on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @06:20PM (#25450144)

The git repository stores only the packaging related items (the specfile, the custom patches, etc.). The actual source is stored as a binary artifact that is downloaded by a `get_sources.sh` script.

The build process is documented here: https://wiki.centos.org/action/show/Sources?action=show&redi...

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Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder by em500 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:46PM (#25450884)

That did it, thanks. From a cursory glance, it looks like it fetches indeed the RHEL (rather than CentOS) sources. It looks like the mains questions for the clone builders will be how RH is going to provide RHEL code drops for their point releases (and updates) in the future. Since right now there are separate 8 and Stream branches, but presumably the 8 will be discontinued at some point?

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Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder by quicklyfrozen on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @06:29PM (#25450211)

The RPM SPEC file in that repo will have a pointer to the actual upstream sources for the package. This is a typical scenario -- they are not re-hosting all of the sources to build a Linux distro, just the build steps needed to pull, patch, and build upstream sources.

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Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder by em500 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:02PM (#25450491)

So where do I actually get this upstream (RHEL8) source of say dracut? Because I was reacting to the comment "Red Hat publishes it's sources on https://git.centos.org. Those are then used to build CentOS Linux packages."

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Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder by quicklyfrozen on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @08:11PM (#25451087)

rpmbuild will download the sources listed in the spec file, apply the patches, and execute the build instructions to produce RPM and SRPM packages. The SRPM will contain the "as built" source tree.

For dracut, the spec file defines the source as http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut-049...

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Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder by tuldia on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:57PM (#25450970)

Seems that dracut upstream is hosted at kernel.org.

This is the regex used in the watch file for Debian to fetch new upstream tarballs: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut-([\...

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