On 17/05/2021 20:46, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 17/05/2021 20:30, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 5/17/21 1:46 PM, Mike McGrath wrote:
>>>
Snipping content as we seem to have reached some mailing list limit
>>>
>>> This is mostly because we also don't ship it in RHEL and we don't ship
>>> it there because we don't want to be on the hook to support it (even
>>> RHEL has a budget and limited resources).
>>>
>>> As far as CentOS Stream, the promise is that if it runs in CentOS Stream
>>> today it should run in the next version of RHEL. By including content
>>> in Stream that we don't include in RHEL, suddenly that promise is broken
>>> if someone accidentally uses it assuming it's in RHEL.
>>>
>>> I'm not saying there aren't ways to work through these issues, but I
>>> wanted to give some ideas as to the thought process that got us here.
>>>
>>> -Mike
>>>
>>
>> Mike,
>>
>> That is all well and good .. but it is your guys (EPEL and Red Hat SIGs)
>> that need this Development content to be in CentOS Stream and the CentOS
>> Community Build System to build things. (I can build things as this
>> content is already in my Koji buildroot).
>>
>> And it is me, this list, and the CentOS Stream group that keep getting
>> asked (by EPEL and the RH SIGs) why this open source stuff can not be in
>> CentOS Linux, CentOS Stream and the CBS.
>>
>> Surely we can set up a non RHEL released repo that your guys can use to
>> build the things that they want.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Johnny Hughes
>
>
> But from what Mike just said, EPEL/SIGs should be building against those
> missing -devel packages on Stream because anything built on Stream must
> also run on RHEL?
>
Sorry, typo - EPEL/SIGs should NOT be building against those missing
-devel packages...
I'm always confused by this because the basis of CRB *was* supposed to be what was required to build EPEL. I'm not sure if EPEL has grown since we started or if we just missed the mark with CRB.
-Mike