On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 11:55 AM Carl George <c...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 8:11 AM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 22. 11. 21 15:00, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> > > - builds will require a valid Red Hat subscription (the no-cost variant is
> > >    OK as well, though [2])
> >
> > I cannot help myself but I consider this very unpleasant for EPEL packagers.
> >
> > Getting and configuring the subscription was always so unfriendly for me 
> > that
> > I've been using EPEL mocks even for my RHEL work. This basically means using
> > EPEL mocks will once again be as complicated as using RHEL.
> >
> > However, enough of my personal views. Since we have not used RHEL for 
> > copr/mock
> > EPEL buidlroots until now, but we used a downstream freely-available 
> > RHEL-copy
> > (CentOS Linux), could we not continue doing so by using e.g. AlmaLinux?
> >
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> I'm not aware of a RHEL clone that offers all the architectures that
> EPEL does.  As far as I can tell, the three most popular (Alma, Rocky,
> Oracle) only offer x86_64 and aarch64 but are missing ppc64le and
> s390x.  That said CentOS Linux 8 doesn't offer s390x either, so we
> already have this problem, but switch the EPEL mock chroot to one of
> those clones would make the situation worse by also dropping ppc64le.
>

I've been informed that AlmaLinux is working on ppc64le support, and
it's supposed to be released "soon". Perhaps Jack can provide an
update here?



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