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title: Release General Overview
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---
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This section goes over at a high level how we compose releases for Rocky Linux.
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As most of our tools are home grown, we have made sure that the tools are open
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source and in our git services.
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This page should serve as an idea of the steps we generally take and we hope
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that other projects out there who wish to also use our tools can make sure they
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can use them in this same way, whether they want to be an Enterprise Linux
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derivative or another project entirely.
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## Build System and Tools
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The tools in use for the distribution are in the table below.
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| Tool | Maintainer | Code Location |
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|-----------------|------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
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| srpmproc | SIG/Core at RESF | [GitHub](https://github.com/rocky-linux/srpmproc) |
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| empanadas | SIG/Core at RESF | [sig-core-toolkit](https://github.com/rocky-linux/sig-core-toolkit) |
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| Peridot | SIG/Core at RESF | [GitHub](https://github.com/rocky-linux/peridot) |
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| MirrorManager 2 | Fedora Project | [MirrorManager2](https://github.com/fedora-infra/mirrormanager2) |
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For Rocky Linux to be build, we use `Peridot` as the build system and
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`empanadas` to "compose" the distribution. As we do not use Koji for Rocky
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Linux beyond version 9, pungi can no longer be used. Peridot instead takes
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pungi configuration data and comps and transforms them into a format it
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can understand. Empanadas then comes in to do the "compose" and sync
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all the repositories down.
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## Full Compose (major or minor releases)
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Step by step, it looks like this:
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* Distribution is built and maintained in Peridot
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* Comps and pungi configuration is converted into the peridot format for the project
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* Repositories are created in yumrepofs based on the configuration provided
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* A repoclosure is ran against the repositories from empanadas to ensure there are no critical issues
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* In Parallel:
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* Repositories are synced as a "full run" in empanadas
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* Lorax is ran using empanadas in the peridot cluster
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* Lorax results are pulled down from an S3 bucket
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* DVD images are built for each architecture
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* Compose directory is synced to staging for verification
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* Staging is synced to production to allow mirror syncing
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* Bit flip on release day
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## General Updates
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Step by step, it looks like this:
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* Distribution is maintained in Peridot
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* Updates are built, repos are then "hashed" in yumrepofs
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* Empanadas syncs updates as needed, either per repo or all repos at once
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* Updates are synced to staging to be verified
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* Staging is synced to production to allow mirror syncing
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