On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
On 7 April 2015 at 09:27, Lokesh Mandvekar lsm5@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:10:47AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
For a long time, Red Hat engineers have dropped public RPMs onto people.redhat.com. Now that CentOS is a more official part of the family, it seems like an obvious idea to me, but why not create a "centos7-devel" branch that is public work that is intended to go into the next upstream update?
Several of the existing repos like virt7-testing and atomic7-testing could simply be folded into this repo.
+1, given that packages like docker could be relevant to atomic and virt.
As well as these "hand built" RPMs: http://people.redhat.com/lnykryn/systemd/ http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs-RHEL-7.1-preview/
And I'm sure others.
I'd love to see epel get combined with this as well, but I'm probably speaking with a docker-tunneled vision.
I don't think EPEL could fit in here because the audience for EPEL is a lot more conservative in what they want than what people working on anything from this decade want. 45% of EPEL users are EL-5, 50% are EL-6 and 5% are EL-7. Projects which are aimed at the EL-7 -> EL-8 space will get a lot of pushback from users when things get updated (this is the reason openstack and various other tools have had to been pulled from EPEL in the past..)
That's partly because there are a *lot* of components in EPEL 6 than are present in EPEL 7. I ran headlong into this trying to build up RT version 4, the perl dependencies include something like 20 perl module SRPM's that are not in EPEL 7 or in CentOS 7. Many of them are available in EPEL 6.
That said, I had an idea called EPIC which might be a better place for these items.
(I wouldn't be surprised if this has come up before but I couldn't figure out any keywords that would find previous conversation on this topic from the archives)
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