Re: [CentOS-devel] Community build services and EPEL8

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for your questions.

Inline my feedback.

On 10.07.19 22:57, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

1. What are the policies that EPEL would need to change?

EPEL is shipping only latest build in their repo. We can't build against older packages. Another issue is that koji doesn't allow that either. The intermediate repo metadata only contains latest builds and it is not configurable as far as I remember.

2. What are the parts of EPEL that are a moving target compared to the

continuous release method of CentOS?

We can build packages and stick to them for a whole lifecycle of a SIG project release for both "Requires:" and "Buildrequires:".

I am sure there are other concerns that can be discussed by the pkgs maintainers.