On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 12:58 PM Peter Georg peter.georg@physik.uni-regensburg.de wrote:
Hi,
I have been following the publicly available progress on CentOS Stream 9 for some time now. So far it has been really interesting to get more information about the process of creating the next major RHEL. Indeed it also helps to better understand some design decision of the final product.
Lately I have been looking at the available composes at [1] and have one question about these:
So far there is a repository/compose/folder/whatever-you-name-it "Everything", which (as the name suggests) simply contains all built packages including all subpackages. However, it seems (see [2]) that this will probably not be available in future composes. Is this correct?
Yes.
I'm asking cause the "Everything" variant would obviously solve the missing subpackages issue we had to (and still have to) deal with for CentOS Stream/Linux 8.
In case I got it right: What is the plan to solve the missing subpackages issue for CentOS Stream 9?
We're still working on this. As a start, all of the content is publicly accessible in koji.
I wanted to ask here to get a little more insight before I start filing bugs to try getting missing subpackages back into CRB/PowerTools. Just looking for a few minutes I immediately found a subpackages that was missing in RHEL 8.0 and people successfully argued to get into CRB/PowerTools later. In RHEL 9.0 it is now missing again :(
We'd definitely like to avoid regressions. If you notice issues like that, please report them in bugzilla against the distribution component and we'll try to clean them up unless the package is slated for removal entirely. A major release is quite an undertaking and the rare opportunity for large amounts of change which can cause issues like that, so help is certainly appreciated.
josh