[CentOS-devel] Missing -devel packages

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 7:57 AM Troy Dawson <tdawson at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 7:39 AM Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 8/10/20 3:41 PM, Troy Dawson wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 1:29 PM Orion Poplawski <orion at nwra.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Is there anything I can do to help out with missing -devel packages in CentOS
> > >> 8?  I'm waiting for a number of them, e.g.:
> > >>
> > >> https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=17401
> > >>
> > > Hi Orion,
> > > It helps if it is linked to this ticket.
> > > https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16492
> > > Although nothing has happened there for 5 months.
> > >
> > > To be clear, there is two definitions of "missing -devel packages"
> > >
> > > There are the ones that have never shown up anywhere  (I'm still
> > > waiting on 4 I believe)
> > >
> > > And then there are the ones that originally showed up, and we were
> > > able to build from them in EPEL8, but then when RHEL 8.2 came along,
> > > the EPEL8 packages are still the old ones from RHEL 8.1.
> > > https://pagure.io/releng/issue/9580
> >
> > And while we would love to just publish these .. we can not.
> >
> > There are competing goals here.  Bit for bit like RHEL .. RHEL does not
> > have the SRPMS, we should not.
> >
> > Someone wants the SRPMS .. so they want us to like RHEL .. except when
> > they don't.  All our build system and where we pull info assumes we need
> > to be the same.  Introducing things were we are not is HARD ..
> > especially in el8 as we HAVE to use koji and mbox and pungi to build.
> > Introducing differences into compose configurations for pungi for
> > releases is HARD .. it has follow on impacts .. and we need a system in
> > place to make it continue to work when we get updated compose files in
> > the future.
> >
> > We have people working on this, but it is just not a priority compared
> > to getting things released on time and builds working properly.  It is
> > not just a simple .. push a couple packages somewhere.
> >
>
> You already have them published, that work is done.
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/Devel/x86_64/os/Packages/
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8.2.2004/Devel/x86_64/os/Packages/
>
> It doesn't say it in the ticket, but from conversations the rsync area
> that was setup for EPEL8 to sync that over, something happened and
> they can't sync anymore.
> I don't know the details.  It's possible that the syncing is already
> fixed, and they just need to restart and/or update their script.
>
> Troy

Turns out the syncing was fixed, but the ticket not closed.
Sorry for all the noise.
If I had just tried to rebuild my package again, I would have seen it was fixed.

Troy