On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 02:53:05PM -0700, Troy Dawson wrote:
Someone brought this proposal to me, I'd like to get others
feedback.
Proposal:
EPEL would make its own "devel" repo, with the missing RHEL packages,
grabbing the packages from the publicly available centos stream koji
builds.[1] For example, the missing lmdb-devel would be downloaded from
here.[2]
We would have a list of missing packages, along with their corresponding
source rpm name. Whenever that source rpm get's updated in RHEL, we would
grab the updated missing packages, and regenerate the "devel" repo.
This should work for epel8, epel8-next, epel9, epel9-next
I realize that this will require some up front work, but I'd like to get
people's ideas about the proposal.
The main concern I have is keeping it in sync... I think we would want
some automation here to notify when such a package updates in rhel,
otherwise while we might update it at first, it will get forgotten after
a while.
Outside of that on the technical side... if these are from stream they
might not always work for base epel would they?
kevin