[CentOS-devel] Community build services and EPEL8

Fri Jul 26 12:02:09 UTC 2019
Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com>


> On Jul 25, 2019, at 9:05 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 02:17:39PM +0200, Alfredo Moralejo Alonso wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Ah, that makes sense. I'm definitely in favor of figuring out how to do the
> cross-tagging here.

Has modularity worked yet for any project or person? I’m aware of it on RHEL 8, but so far it’s caused me nothing but interwoven dependency hell.