On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 23:05, Mark LaPierre marklapier@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/3/21 8:34 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 18:20, Gordon Messmer gordon.messmer@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/3/21 2:51 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
is it still OK to set up EPEL as a repo?
Yes. CentOS Stream is expected to be backward-compatible with RHEL, for the same reason that each RHEL point release is backward-compatible with previous point releases.
Except in cases where packages in a RHEL point release are being rebased. This is something which is happening with a lot more gusto than in any previous releases so there may be points where say a QT or a gnomelib provides in Stream is ahead of EPEL
So how would one use this shiny bit of information? Is there a way to discover if an EPEL application is going to clobber your system before you install it?
Unless you are doing something like 'rpm -ivh --force --nodeps', this problem with EPEL is not going to clobber your system. What will happen is that you can either 'not upgrade' to that package in EPEL because nothing provides the needed dependencies in Stream. OR you won't be able to update to whatever is newer in CentOS Stream because it would break your system because it removes dependencies.
The solution will be that there will be an EPEL-Stream which can have updated packages which will not have this dependency issue. I do not have an ETA on when that will be available