On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 12:19 AM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 31. 08. 22 23:08, Stephen Smoogen wrote: > > > > When EPEL-8 was launched, it came with some support for modules with the > hope > > that a module ecosystem could be built from Fedora packages using RHEL > modules > > as an underlying tool. This has never happened and we have ended up with > a > > muddle of modular packages which will 'build' but may not install or > even run > > on an EL-8 system. Attempts to fix this and work within how EPEL is > normally > > built have been tried for several years by different people but have not > worked. > > > > At this point it is time to say this experiment with modules in EPEL has > not > > worked and focus resources on what does work. I would like to propose > that > > modular support is removed from EPEL by January 2023. > > > > Steps: > > 1. Approval of this proposal by the EPEL Steering committee and any > other ones > > required. > > 2. Announcement of end of life to various lists. > 2.5 - move epel-modular.repo and epel-testing-modular.repo to it's own sub-package of epel-repos-modular > > 3. Archiving of the modules on XYZ date to > /pub/archive/epel/8.YYYY-MM/Modular > > and pointing mirrormanager to that for that > > 4. Make changes in bodhi to turn off reporting about modules for EL8. > > 5. Make changes in MBS configs to turn off building modules for EL8. > > 6. Make changes in PDC for EL8 modules > > 7. Make changes in compose scripts and tools to no longer cover EPEL-8 > modules > > 8. Remove epel-8 modules from /pub/epel/8 > > 9. Announce closure of this proposal and any lessons learned. 10. Drop https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/epel-release/blob/epel8/f/epel-testing-modular.repo from epel-repos-modular Troy
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