On Thu, 1 Sept 2022 at 12:25, Troy Dawson <tdawson(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 12:19 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On 31. 08. 22 23:08, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> >
> > When EPEL-8 was launched, it came with some support for modules with
> the hope
> > that a module ecosystem could be built from Fedora packages using RHEL
> modules
> > as an underlying tool. This has never happened and we have ended up
> with a
> > muddle of modular packages which will 'build' but may not install or
> even run
> > on an EL-8 system. Attempts to fix this and work within how EPEL is
> normally
> > built have been tried for several years by different people but have
> not worked.
> >
> > At this point it is time to say this experiment with modules in EPEL
> has not
> > worked and focus resources on what does work. I would like to propose
> that
> > modular support is removed from EPEL by January 2023.
> >
> > Steps:
> > 1. Approval of this proposal by the EPEL Steering committee and any
> other ones
> > required.
> > 2. Announcement of end of life to various lists.
>
2.5 - move epel-modular.repo and epel-testing-modular.repo to it's own
sub-package of epel-repos-modular
> > 3. Archiving of the modules on XYZ date to
> /pub/archive/epel/8.YYYY-MM/Modular
> > and pointing mirrormanager to that for that
> > 4. Make changes in bodhi to turn off reporting about modules for EL8.
> > 5. Make changes in MBS configs to turn off building modules for EL8.
> > 6. Make changes in PDC for EL8 modules
> > 7. Make changes in compose scripts and tools to no longer cover EPEL-8
> modules
> > 8. Remove epel-8 modules from /pub/epel/8
> > 9. Announce closure of this proposal and any lessons learned.
10. Drop
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/epel-release/blob/epel8/f/epel-testing...
from epel-repos-modular
I agree with Miro and your changes and will put a ticket into the pagure to
start the ball rolling.
Troy
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