On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 7:44 PM Carl George carl@redhat.com wrote:
This should normally be an edge case that only occurs during the time between a RHEL point release and the corresponding CentOS Linux rebuild. Historically that usually takes about a month. As more and
A few have been that fast. Some have taken up to six months: I'm thinking of CentOS 7.2.
Regarding using CentOS Stream for your use case, be aware that EPEL is built against RHEL, so it's possible to run into issues where an EPEL package doesn't work on CentOS Stream. This is a known issue that we haven't come to a conclusion yet on how to handle. On a related note, EPEL faces similar challenges when RHEL bumps a library soname. The
It's one reason I spend some time with "mock", myself, to be able to backport dependency chains and resolve such discrepancies at least with an internal repository.