[CentOS-devel] Community build services and EPEL8

[Alfredo Moralejo Alonso]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 8:50 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:16:11AM +0200, Alfredo Moralejo Alonso wrote:
> > > 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.
> > In CloudSIG we currently are explicit about not supporting enabling EPEL
> > repos to deploy OpenStack. We are rebuilding the required deps in the SIG
> > repo when needed. The main reasons for this is that we want to stay with
> > specific versions of dependencies for stable releases and not following
> > latest builds in EPEL on every supported release.
>
> I'd really like to see modularity used to address this problem. This is one
> of the things that it's _for_.
>
>
> > Also, rebuilding them in
> > CBS allows us to test any update before pushing it to the actual repos.
>
> Sorry, I'm not familiar with the process here. How does rebuilding help
> with
> testing? Doesn't it mean you have something _less_ tested?
>
>
>
What helps is not rebuilding packages (I'm fine with using EPEL packages if
they are available) but publishing packages in SIG's managed repos instead
of just enabling EPEL repos. I can test those builds (whether rebuilt or
just cross-tagged) before tagging and pushing them to the actual repos.


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