On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 7 April 2015 at 09:27, Lokesh Mandvekar <lsm5 at fedoraproject.org> wrote: >> >> 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? >> > >> > Several of the existing repos like virt7-testing and atomic7-testing >> > could simply be folded into this repo. >> >> +1, given that packages like docker could be relevant to atomic and virt. >> >> > >> > As well as these "hand built" RPMs: >> > http://people.redhat.com/lnykryn/systemd/ >> > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs-RHEL-7.1-preview/ >> > >> > And I'm sure others. >> >> I'd love to see epel get combined with this as well, but I'm probably >> speaking with a docker-tunneled vision. >> > > 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. > > >> >> > >> > (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) >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > CentOS-devel mailing list >> > CentOS-devel at centos.org >> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >> >> -- >> Lokesh >> Freenode, OFTC: lsm5 >> GPG: 0xC7C3A0DD >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-devel mailing list >> CentOS-devel at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >> > > > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >