Hello all,
I've been working with RHEL and CentOS packages since about 2011, but mostly in
the domain of private Yum repositories. I've done some work in the past with the
SUSE Build Service also. I'm familiar with Redhat/Fedora packaging guidelines
but not with Fedora-specific development tooling. I've also been involved in the
Redhat bugzilla and submitted several library patches for packaging (but never
managed a package or package branch itself).
Since RHEL/CentOS 8 has been released now, I'm interested in helping with the
migration of packages into the EPEL-8 repository. My focus is on some particular
scientific computing packages which are available in EPEL-7 but not yet in EPEL-
8. I've not been able to find any good information about this type of thing;
does anyone have any pointers?
My first thought would be to start rebuilding "fc28" packages for
"el8" but I
don't want to duplicate effort if there is already coordinated EPEL-8 targeting
for some of these packages. The link at <
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_do_I_request_a_EPEL_branch_fo...
points to the old "PackageDB" process but that appears to
be superseded by the
"fedpkg" tool. I suppose I need to be an approved
package developer even to do
local EPEL-8 -targeted builds.
Thanks,
Brian Sipos