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The Rocky Linux Core Special Interest Group (SIG/Core) dedicates themselves to the development, building, management, production, and release of Rocky Linux for the Enterprise Linux community and the many users around the world. This group is a mixture of core Rocky Linux developers and infrastructure and the members of this group are also members of other groups within the Rocky Linux community (such as SIG/AltArch) as well as the Enterprise Linux community as a whole.

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SIG/Core strives to ensure a stable distribution is developed, built, tested, and provided to the community from the RESF as a compatible derivative of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. To achieve this goal, some of the things we do are:

See the What We Do page for a more detailed explanation of our activities.

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There are various ways to get in touch with SIG/Core and provide help, assistance, or even just ideas that can benefit us or the entire community.

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SIG/Core is a mix of Release Engineering and Infrastructure members to ensure a high quality release of Rocky Linux as well as the uptime of the services provided to the community. The current members of this group are listed in the table below.

| Role | Name | Email | Mattermost Name | IRC Name | |---------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------|------------------------ |-------------------|--------------------| | Identity Management & Release Engineering Co-Lead | Louis Abel | label@rockylinux.org | @nazunalika | Sokel/label/Sombra | | Release Engineering Co-Lead | Mustafa Gezen | mustafa@rockylinux.org | @mustafa | mstg | | Release Engineering and Development | Skip Grube | skip@rockylinux.org | @skip77 | | | Release Engineering and Development | Sherif Nagy | sherif@rockylinux.org | @sherif | | | Release Engineering and Development | Pablo Greco | pgreco@rockylinux.org | @pgreco | pgreco | | Infrastructure Lead | Neil Hanlon | neil@resf.org | @neil | neil | | Infrastructure Lead | Taylor Goodwill | tg@resf.org | @tgo | tg |

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This section goes over at a high level how we compose releases for Rocky Linux. As most of our tools are home grown, we have made sure that the tools are open source and in our git services.

This page should serve as an idea of the steps we generally take and we hope that other projects out there who wish to also use our tools can make sure they can use them in this same way, whether they want to be an Enterprise Linux derivative or another project entirely.

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The tools in use for the distribution are in the table below.

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Step by step, it looks like this:

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Step by step, it looks like this:

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This page goes over empanadas, which is part of the SIG/Core toolkit. Empanadas assists SIG/Core is composing repositories, creating ISO's, creating images, and various other activities in Rocky Linux. It is also used for general testing and debugging of repositories and its metadata.

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Depending on how you are using empanadas will depend on how your configurations will be setup.

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In some cases, a package has to be rebuilt. A package may be rebuilt for these reasons:

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Each file in empanads/sig/ is a yaml file that contains configuration items for the distribution release version. The configuration determines the structure of the SIG repositories synced from Peridot or a given repo.

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So you made a bad decision and now have to do things to Mirror Manager. Good luck.

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Fastly sits in front of mirror manager. VPN is required to access the /admin endpoints.

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  1. Update the redirects for $reponame-$releasever

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This will generate a table. You can take the IDs in the first column and use the database to disable them by ID (table name: hosts) or go to https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrormanager/host/ID and uncheck 'User active'.

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  2. Website should be ready (typically with an open PR in github). The content should be verified that the design and content are correct and finalized.

  3. Enough mirrors should be setup. This essentially means that all content for a release should be synced to our primary mirror with the executable bit turned off, and the content should also be hard linked. In theory, mirror manager can be queried to verify if mirrors are or appear to be in sync.

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This SOP contains general checklists required by SIG/Core to prepare and plan for the upcoming release. This work, in general, is required to be done on a routine basis, even months out before the next major or minor release, as it requires monitoring of upstream's (CentOS Stream) work to ensure Rocky Linux will remain ready and compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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It is expected to monitor the following repositories upstream, as these will indicate what is coming up for a given major or point release. These repositories are found at the Red Hat gitlab.

These repositories can be monitored by setting to \"all activity\" on the bell icon.

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Repositories that generally track for LookAhead and Beta releases will flow downward to the stable branch. For example:

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This applies to any specific rocky repo, such as comps, pungi, peridot-config, and so on. As it is expected some repos will deviate in commit history, it is OK to force push, under the assumption that changes made in the lower branch exists in the upper branch. That way you can avoid changes/functionality being reverted on accident.

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