[CentOS-devel] libssh missing from extras/ppc64 repository

[Johnny Hughes]

On 12/18/2017 03:41 AM, Mihai Moldovan wrote:
> * On 12/15/2017 09:33 PM, James O'Connor wrote:
>> I’ve built libssh-0.7.1-3.el7.ppc64.rpm and libssh-devel-0.7.1-3.el7.ppc64.rpm. They will be in the next ppc64 Extras sign and push.
>>
>> There is no upstream RHEL 7 Extras for ppc64. There is also no ppc64 golang port which makes it impossible to compile a bunch of the Extras content that exists for x86_64 and ppc64le.
> 
> Okay, that's good to know.
> 
> As previously said, I've been probably barking up the wrong tree. It looks like
> ppc64 extras never contained libssh or the other python packages - instead they
> were part of EPEL 7, but the packages were deleted there for some unknown reason.
> 
> Maybe because the EPEL maintainers saw that the software is available in the
> RHEL extras channel (and by extensions, CentOS 7's extras channel) - at least
> for x86_64 (and incidentally ppc64le).
> 
> If RedHat itself has no extras channel for ppc64, I wonder whether CentOS should
> have one in the first place - given that CentOS' goal is to stay close to RHEL.
> Maybe it would make sense to drop that repository completely (until RH
> introduces an extra channel for ppc64) and hope that EPEL will fill the void.
> 
> 
> 

Well .. extras is also for other things we want to add to CentOS which
is not in RHEL and not an upgrade or replacement to things in the base
OS.  So, if there are things one wants as an 'add on', extras is where
it will go.

There is nothing wrong with adding things on top of CentOS Linux.  BUT
.. major things should be done in a SIG.
(https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup).  I would not be opposed
to building anything in extras for x86_64 (that will build) for the
AltArches.

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