[CentOS-devel] EPEL 8

Am 12.07.2019 um 02:54 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com>:
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> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 6:17 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 17:56, Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel <centos-devel at centos.org> wrote:
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>>> Am 09.07.2019 um 13:56 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>:
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>>>> On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 02:23, Thomas Stephen Lee <lee.iitb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> It looks like Fedora EPEL people are having issues with the "modules" architecture.
>>>>> You all are probably busy with CentOS 8.
>>>>> If anyone has spare time, take a look.
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/YFJWQBIKFQGY6NWL3F7M3PTWMXOWCTQ5/
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> I would expect we are having problems with a lot of things, but we will solve them one by one. We solved our problems with RHEL-7 and RHEL-6.
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>>> It seems that the CodeReady repository has some missing devel packages. This will make the build process harder ...
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>> So we haven't gotten that far yet in this. The proof of concept we worked on before the release did find that what is shipped or not shipped in RHEL makes it harder.
>> 
>> Even so. EPEL is a place where Fedora package maintainers put packages they would like to be usable in EL environments. That means not every Fedora package appears in EPEL and it also means that we do not have 1:1 package between EPEL-6 and EPEL-7 and won't with EPEL-8 as various maintainers may not wish to have a package there. So when EPEL-8 is 'open for business' not a lot of packages will be there. Hopefully it will grow over time.. or it might not. I can make no promises.
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> Mock, and awsclii, are the ones I wanted most. I've published two
> tools I use for RHEL 8 mock building. One is the "reposync-rhel-8.sh"
> script in my repository at
> https://github.com/nkadel/nkadel-rsync-scripts/blob/master/reposync-rhel-8.sh.
> I use that on a RHEL 8 box to create an internal RHEL 8 yum mirror on
> my licensed RHEL 8 host.
> 
> On top of that, I build a local copy of mock, using my tools at
> https://github.com/nkadel/nkadel-rhel-8-mockrepo . EPEL 8 is welcome
> to my tools to build mock from that repo.. Building RHEL 8 or EPEL 8
> packages requires setting up the  relevant "epel-8-x86_64.cfg" to use
> the "best=0" setting, to avoid confusion about the "module" RPMs.


Reading this, I wonder if its possible to build the meta information for module 
packages out of a rpm list (without additional knowledge)? Similar to createrepo 
that works just pointing to a directory. Scenario: pinning a version or incorporating 
upstream packages in a local repository. Just curious because that module thing 
completely passed me by since I don't use fedora. So, EL8 put the wall in front of me :-)

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LF