[CentOS-devel] Community build services and EPEL8

[Markus Falb]

On 12.07.19 18:35, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 7/12/19 12:23 AM, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
>>
>>
>> Il giorno mer 10 lug 2019 alle ore 22:53 Thomas Oulevey
>> <thomas.oulevey at cern.ch <mailto:thomas.oulevey at cern.ch>> ha scritto:
>>
>>     Hello folks,
>>
>>     In the planning of next Community build services, a new question
>>     came up.
>>
>>     In the past we never allowed EPEL repositories to be used as external
>>     repositories for SIGs. Doing so, would allow to build against EPEL
>>     packages and not duplicate the work for maintainers in EPEL/SIGs.
>>
>>     However it would mean also building against a moving target which
>>     can be
>>     difficult if EPEL policies are the same as today.
>>
>>     As EPEL 8 is also in the making it would be good to hear what SIGs
>>     think
>>     about this specific issue.
>>
>>     Let us know !
>>
>>
>> Within Virt SIG, under oVirt project we are rebuilding a few packages
>> from EPEL without modifications.
>> Being able to tag into our repos packages which are available in EPEL
>> would reduce the load on the SIG.
>>
> 
> The issue is .. they change the versions out and you then lose that
> package.  next build it fails with the new one .. what do you do?  The
> old package is no longer available anywhere.

A few months ago inherited a installation of ovirt that was not getting
much love for some more months. It was an ovirt 4.1.whatever. Upgrade
process to 4.2 was a pain because if something fails at upgrade ovirt
tries to rollback, but some requirements of ovirt 4.1 are not available
anymore in centos repositories. Of course something failed...

I just want to point out that CentOS Project does it too!
ovirt 4.1 dependencies only to be found in vault.centos.org

vault.centos.org was a pain within that context.

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Kind Regards, Markus Falb