[CentOS-devel] missing rpms in extras

On 16-12-16 15:09, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 12/15/2016 04:10 PM, Jacco Ligthart wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>> I think there are some rpms missing in the 7.3 extras repository. This
>> is not a complete list, but just the items I missed.
>>
>> from the items needed for building 7.3:
>>
>> [DIR]    nss_wrapper/    2016-11-16 12:38     -      
>> [DIR]    cmocka/    2016-11-16 12:22     -      
>> [DIR]    python-hypothesis/    2016-11-15 13:24     -      
>> [DIR]    python-cryptography-vectors/    2016-11-15 13:23     -     
>>
>>
>> And some older items:
>>
>> [DIR]    python-pretend/    2015-11-20 01:07     -      
>> [DIR]    python-iso8601/    2015-11-20 00:57     -     
>>
>>
>> (items are cut-n-paste from buildlogs.centos.org)
>>
>> As far as I can see they are missing both in the normal mirrors as in
>> the vault.
> Those were not released as RHEL source code for RHEL-7 .. we do have
> them on buildlogs in the c7-extras for building:
>
> http://buildlogs.centos.org/c7-extras/
I knew that.
> Most of those are also in EPEL, so I don't want to release it as well.
> I could release them, but really don't want to then maintain them when
> EPEL does updates, etc. or we end up with different versions.
>
OK, I always assumed that the extras repository was explicitly for
tracking items that were needed to build CentOS, but that were not in
RHEL. I think many of the other items in there also qualify for that.
Apparently I assumed wrong.

Thanks for the answer,

Jacco