On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 2:29 AM Petr Pisar <ppisar(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 03:15:29PM -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> I think that could be workable, but I'll toss out another proposal:
>
> As soon as centos 9 stream exists, we create epel9-playground and allow
> people to branch/add packages to it. Once rhel9 is GA, we setup epel9 as
> usual and epel9-next and point epel9-next to build against stream and
> playground to build against rhel9.
>
Do you know what CentOS 9 Stream will look like between its first availability
and RHEL 9 GA? I worry that there will surface RHEL 9.1 changes. Then
switching epel9-playground from CentOS 9 Stream to RHEL 9 could manifest
incompatibilities as the build root would regress.
Very good question Petr, and thanks for asking it.
I asked internally about this.
There will be a set time [1] when RHEL 9.0.0 release will be branched,
and all the final stabilizing stuff will happen internally.
At that point, CentOS 9 Stream will be on the 9.1.0 release, and any
changes to it will not be in the 9.0.0 GA.
I don't know when that point in time is, I haven't figured it out yet.
But my educated guess is 3 months before GA, if I'm wrong, then I
don't think more than 6 months before GA.
So, that gives us something to consider. Do we think that 3 to 6
months of possible changes will affect us too much?
Troy
[1] - I wasn't given a date, just X weeks into the schedule.