Hi Stephen,
Thanks for your questions.
Inline my feedback.
On 10.07.19 22:57, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
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> 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.
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.
The intermediate repo metadata only contains latest builds and it is not
configurable as far as I remember.
I am not sure what that means.
> 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:".
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.
I am sure there are other concerns that can be discussed by the pkgs
maintainers.
I don't doubt. We can work through them.
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Thomas Oulevey