On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 9:32 AM Merlin Mathesius <mmath...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 4:05 PM Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 01:16:47PM -0500, Merlin Mathesius wrote: >> > I was asked to draft a plan stating what EPEL 8 should do regarding >> > Software Collections. The draft I came up with is included below. >> >> Looks good to me. +1 here. >> >> > EPEL Steering Committee: Please ratify this plan or provide feedback as >> > necessary. When it's ready, and I will prepare a PR for this to land in >> > https://pagure.io/epel/blob/master/f/docs/source >> >> That would be great... >> > > Thanks! > > Anyone else? > > I went ahead and created https://pagure.io/epel/pull-request/81 > Is there any further discussion or feedback on this plan? If not, could someone merge my documentation PR and make it official? Thank you! Merlin > > Merlin > > >> kevin >> -- >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Merlin >> > >> > ------------------------------ >> > >> > >> > *Regarding EPEL and Software Collections* >> > *Background* >> > >> > For RHEL 8, Red Hat made the decision to provide multiple versions of >> > software in the form of App Stream modules instead of Red Hat Software >> > Collections (RHSCLs). >> > >> > SCLs are maintained by the CentOS Software Collections SIG, not the EPEL >> > SIG. >> > >> > RHEL 8 comes with the scl-utils and scl-utils-build packages--which >> contain >> > tools for using and building SCLs. These packages appear to function as >> > expected with RHEL 8 and CentOS 8. >> > >> > *Recommendations* >> > >> > EPEL will not provide SCL support, although it will not prohibit use of >> the >> > SCL tools provided with RHEL 8. >> > >> > EPEL will not provide any SCLs. >> > >> > EPEL encourages the community to follow Red Hat’s lead and provide >> multiple >> > versions of software for RHEL 8 and CentOS 8 in the form of modules >> rather >> > than SCLs. >> > >> > For use cases that require the parallel installation of multiple >> versions >> > of the same component, EPEL recommends the same solution as RHEL 8: >> > containers. >> > >> > ------------------------------ >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> > To unsubscribe send an email to >> epel-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> > Fedora Code of Conduct: >> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ >> > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> > List Archives: >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Fedora Code of Conduct: >> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ >> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> List Archives: >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> >
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