<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 17:09, Thomas Oulevey <<a href="mailto:thomas.oulevey@cern.ch">thomas.oulevey@cern.ch</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Stephen,<br>
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Thanks for your questions.<br>
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Inline my feedback.<br>
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On 10.07.19 22:57, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:<br>
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> 1. What are the policies that EPEL would need to change?<br>
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EPEL is shipping only latest build in their repo. We can't build against <br>
older packages. Another issue is that koji doesn't allow that either. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Understood, we are hoping to keep some around but do you guys compile against older copies of CentOS? I thought it was compiled only with the latest bits. Second koji does work with external packages this way because that is how we compile RHEL. For RHEL-7, we only see the latest RHEL download we got from CDN that day. </div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
The intermediate repo metadata only contains latest builds and it is not <br>
configurable as far as I remember.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am not sure what that means.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> 2. What are the parts of EPEL that are a moving target compared to the <br>
> continuous release method of CentOS?<br>
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We can build packages and stick to them for a whole lifecycle of a SIG <br>
project release for both "Requires:" and "Buildrequires:".<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So the CBS points not at latest CentOS but has copies of every package that CentOS ever built ? [AKA you import in whatever glibc rpm was used and it is stored in the lookaside and koji places? Cool. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I am sure there are other concerns that can be discussed by the pkgs <br>
maintainers.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't doubt. We can work through them.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
-- <br>
Thomas Oulevey<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Stephen J Smoogen.<br><br></div></div></div>