On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 10:05 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.
I'd suggest a middle-ground: we normally build against the latest RHEL
8 minor release. Once the RHEL 8.x+1 *beta* is released, we change
epel8-playground to build against CentOS stream until the GA release.
We can also potentially run a mass-rebuild at this time to help
identify issues early.