On 1/4/21 3:05 AM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:
I would expect broken update paths. Also after EOL of CentOS Linux but not sure if they plan a new "playground" repo:
EPEL-NEXT ... see here:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject...
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject...
Those threads probably aren't relevant to *users* of EPEL, just to package managers. EPEL packages are intended for RHEL installation targets. CentOS Stream won't necessarily be an appropriate build root for an RHEL installation target, since it may provide ABIs before they're available in RHEL.
CentOS Stream in this context is interchangeable with RHEL X.(Y+1). RHEL X.(Y+1) is backward compatible with previous releases, but previous releases aren't necessarily forward compatible with X.(Y+1). Therefore, using the currently available release of RHEL as a build root for the next release will generally yield usable packages, but using X.(Y+1) may yield packages that aren't usable on RHEL's currently available release. But X.(Y+1) should run packages from either build root, so CentOS Stream users shouldn't typically have any problems with EPEL, regardless.