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On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 7 April 2015 at 09:27, Lokesh Mandvekar <lsm5 at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:10:47AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
>> > For a long time, Red Hat engineers have dropped public RPMs onto
>> > people.redhat.com.  Now that CentOS is a more official part of the family,
>> > it seems like an obvious idea to me, but why not create a "centos7-devel"
>> > branch that is public work that is intended to go into the next upstream
>> > update?
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>> > Several of the existing repos like virt7-testing and atomic7-testing
>> > could simply be folded into this repo.
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>> +1, given that packages like docker could be relevant to atomic and virt.
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>> > As well as these "hand built" RPMs:
>> > http://people.redhat.com/lnykryn/systemd/
>> > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs-RHEL-7.1-preview/
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>> > And I'm sure others.
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>> I'd love to see epel get combined with this as well, but I'm probably
>> speaking with a docker-tunneled vision.
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> I don't think EPEL could fit in here because the audience for EPEL is a lot
> more conservative in what they want than what people working on anything
> from this decade want. 45% of EPEL users are EL-5, 50% are EL-6 and 5% are
> EL-7. Projects which are aimed at the EL-7 -> EL-8 space will get a lot of
> pushback from users when things get updated (this is the reason openstack
> and various other tools have had to been pulled from EPEL in the past..)

That's partly because there are a *lot* of components in EPEL 6 than
are present in EPEL 7. I ran headlong into this trying to build up RT
version 4, the perl dependencies include something like 20 perl module
SRPM's that are not in EPEL 7  or in CentOS 7. Many of them are
available in EPEL 6.


> That said, I had an idea called EPIC which might be a better place for these
> items.
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>> > (I wouldn't be surprised if this has come up before but I couldn't
>> > figure out any keywords that would find previous conversation on this topic
>> > from the archives)
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