[CentOS-devel] Community build services and EPEL8

On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 16:52, Thomas Oulevey <thomas.oulevey at cern.ch> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
1. What are the policies that EPEL would need to change?
2. What are the parts of EPEL that are a moving target compared to the
continuous release method of CentOS?



> As EPEL 8 is also in the making it would be good to hear what SIGs think
> about this specific issue.
>
> Let us know !
>
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