On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 7:05 AM Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 02:54:26PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> After the announcement today of centos-stream, I wonder if it would make
> sense to move epel8-playground to build against that instead of the
> latest rhel8 release?
This is something we're talking about at the CentOS Stream kickoff meeting.
As EPEL exists today against RHEL and CentOS Linux rebuild, there's a lag
time problem when there are surprising RHEL updates -- usually fixed in a
few days but sometimes weeks. With CentOS Stream, hopefully there will be no
surprises, but the gap between CentOS Stream and RHEL will be always there.
I think if we changed EPEL Playground to build against CentOS Stream, we'd
just move the bifurcation problem rather than solving it. I kind of think we
need _both_ epel8 and epel8-playground built against both RHEL and CentOS
Stream. But I'd love to hear better ideas.
In my opnion, bad idea. We should be using koschei [1] for that.
Two reasons it's a bad idea.
1 - Since Stream is be definition, changing, you will not easily know
what an EPEL package is built against.
2 - EPEL and EPEL-playground packages are not built regularly. They
usually tend to sit for long periods of time without any rebuild. So
"building against Stream" may, or may not affect some packages,
because they only get built every year or so.
Troy
[1] -
https://koschei.fedoraproject.org/?order_by=state%2Cname&collection=e...