flathub: update on infra / new repo/GPG key coming

[Alberto Ruiz]

I'm glad Codethink is donating ARM builders, but I'm wondering, what
happened to the scaleway servers? Are we using them at all?

2017-07-25 10:49 GMT+01:00 Robert McQueen <ramcq at gnome.org>:
> Hi all,
>
> Over the past few weeks I've been busy getting the new Flathub servers
> set up. It's looking pretty good now - we've got the VMs set up with
> Cent OS 7, buildbot master, repo and frontend servers up and running,
> and a nice SSL set-up with Lets Encrypt and the Mozilla best practices.
>
> I'm waiting on the ARM builders to be connected in to the new
> infrastructure (thanks to Codethink for sponsoring the ARM builders!),
> and then I'm going to re-initialise the new repo and rebuild everything
> that's in Flathub at the moment.
>
> There is a new GPG signing key for the new repo, stored in a Yubikey
> connected to the new infrastructure, so although the server can sign the
> repo with it, it can't be taken offline and used elsewhere. I've
> attached the public key here just for completeness - however we've added
> it to the trusted keyring of the existing repo, so existing systems that
> have updated in the past month or so should already have the key.
>
> Hopefully this will all be done this week and we'll be able to switch
> over to the new infrastructure in time for GUADEC at the end of the
> week. It should be a smooth switch-over (essentially the history will
> disappear, and every app will see an update available corresponding to
> the latest build), but if there you see any oddities please let us know.
>
> Thanks to all of our contributors to the fundraiser and to Mythic Beasts
> (www.mythic-beasts.com) for supporting Flathub with the server,
> bandwidth and patience with my never-ending series of questions about
> getting everything set up nicely. :)
>
> Hope to see some of you in Manchester!
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
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Cheers,
Alberto Ruiz