[CentOS-devel] Community build services and EPEL8

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?


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