On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 11:29 PM Orion Poplawski <or...@nwra.com> wrote: > > On 10/7/19 12:27 PM, Stephan Wiesand wrote: > >> On 7. Oct 2019, at 18:17, Jose Marques <jm...@st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote: > >> > >>> On 7 Oct 2019, at 16:43, Fait, James F. > >>> <00000c6019404d64-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > >> The only thing concerning me so far is the lack of packages in EPEL. > >> There are things we use from EPEL on SL7 that are not present in EPEL on > >> Centos8. Maybe it's still being built out but if not then that may delay > >> us deploying it (more things we have to package). > > > > AFAIK EPEL is built on CentOS systems, and given that CentOS 8 has been out > > for just a couple of days now I wouldn't expect EPEL 8 to be anywhere near > > complete for now. Chances are this will work out. > > EPEL is built on RHEL - it's actually one of the points that helps sell > it with RHEL customers. We may start building on CentOS for platforms > that RHEL does not support but CentOS does. > > If there are packages missing from EPEL that you want, file a bug in > bugzilla.redhat.com against the component under Fedora EPEL. There is > no magic for EPEL packages to appear - it requires someone (generally > the package maintainer) to request a branch and build it. And without > any outside input they tend to just scratch their own itches first. > > > What I'm really curious about is folks' thoughts on "CentOS Stream". Will > > it scratch our itches? > > That of course depends on what your itch is :). If it is submitting PRs > and advance testing of RHEL X.Y+0.1 then yes. Perhaps more > interesting once CentOS 9 Stream appears, assuming it does.
Bring that discussion over to centos-devel: I've raised some concerns about it and what it's for and what it will lead to.
