Fabian, This is important; to do the extras you need for a lot of server platforms. I know nothing about twitter or irc; I am only an emailer correspondent (or web forum when I am forced to). It is kind of sad that what should be the main for of user communication, is just not used. That said, you know that I struggled with the EPEL-arm7 (and I feel that is what we should call it), as many of the rpms I needed did build, but were not available from the repo. I had to download them, then install locally. But let's take this point by point. On 07/29/2017 06:54 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > Hi guys, > > A trend I see either on twitter, or irc, or elsewhere is a complaint > about Epel not available for CentOS 7 userland on armhfp. > > It's of course technically true (as there is nothing listed on the Epel > wiki page itself) but we covered that FAQ in our wiki : > https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/Arm32#head-f2a772703b3caa90cc284e01bc87423ce9a87bcd And I put one in my howto at: http://www.htt-consult.com/Centos7-armv7.html#EPEL I use a slightly different command: cat <<EOF>/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo || exit 1 > Unfortunately, it seems that people never read that wiki page. > > So I was just wondering if we could have our epel rebuild effort > (https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/epel-pass-1/) available directly > for our armhfp users, without having them to do anything special. That would be very nice. One less thing to figure out. > Now I'm wondering if we should just create a .repo (and coming from > centos-userland-release) but have it disabled by default (imho) or even > enable it by default (-1 on my side) Disabled by default. It is easy to tell people to enable what is there, than explain how to add it. And I suppose there are situations where having it could cause issues? I don't know enough to answer that one. > Also, we should probably just rename it to something else than 'Epel' as > we can't call that epel : it's a rebuild from Epel SRPMs but it's not Epel EPEL-arm7 or EPEL-arm7hl > Opinions, Thoughts ? please make hear your voice ! > > PS : also trying to make some noise on twitter to bring back users not > subscribed to the arm-dev list, or not hanging around in #centos-arm on > irc.freenode.net I make noise on the main Centos list where I occasionally see arm questions. And can perhaps there be a pass-2 that has more in the repo instead of having to search for the rpms separately? See: http://www.htt-consult.com/Centos7-mailserver.html#Installing%20Mail%20packages Bob