On 3/13/20 12:01 PM, Alfredo Moralejo Alonso wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 5:34 PM Brian Stinson > <bstinson at centosproject.org <mailto:bstinson at centosproject.org>> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > We were exploring ways to deal with devel packages that are unshipped > upstream in RHEL 8, but which are required at build-time in SIG > deliverables, or for software that you might want to build at home. > > We just pushed the Devel variant to the mirrors, as soon the mirror > network coalesces, you can find this repository at: > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/Devel, OR > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-Stream/Devel > > We are currently in the process of including a .repo file (disabled by > default) in centos-release. Look for an update to that soon. > > Special thanks to James Antill, who did most of the compose work > on this > variant. > > Here are some questions that you might have, and some answers: > > ## What is the Devel repo for? > > We envision using the Devel repo for packages that are unshipped in > CentOS Linux/CentOS Stream but needed for build-time dependencies of > other packages. Devel is *NOT* meant to satisfy runtime > dependencies or > for long term use on general purpose machines. > > ## How do I use the Devel repo? > > We will soon ship repo files in centos-release-8.1-1.1911.0.9.el8 and > centos-release-stream-8.1-1.1911.0.9.el8, once those are installed you > can enable the Devel repo by running: > > dnf config-manager --enable Devel (on CentOS Linux), OR > > dnf config-manager --enable Stream-Devel (on CentOS Stream) > > Reminder: this repo is *not* for general purpose use, and is only > recommended for buildtime activities only. > > > For CBS builds, will this repo be added as an external repo in all c8 > build targets or should we request it in bugs.centos.org? > <http://bugs.centos.org>? > > > ## How do I ask for an unshipped package to be included in Devel? > > Please file a bug on bugs.centos.org? <http://bugs.centos.org> > Project: CentOS-8 > Category: _unreleased_devel_packages > > Give us a short description of the -devel package that you need, and a > description of what the -devel package is used to build. > > ## Why do you need to know what the -devel packages are used for? > > We ask for that information to better understand the impact of not > including them in a normal release artifact. This is an information > gathering opportunity and is *not* for making inclusion/rejection > judgements for Devel > > ## Why isn't my package included yet? > > We began with a small subset of requests to test our compose and > delivery configs. We plan to close out bugs that are fixed with this > push shortly, and then process the rest of the queue. Stay tuned > to your > open bugs if you have them. > > ## Why not include *all* unshipped components in Devel? > > One reason is that we want to gather impact information that we can > communicate upstream. > > More importantly, Red Hat has decided that these unshipped > packages are > lower in bugfix/update priority compared to the ones that made it into > RHEL. In very limited cases, we may not see updates to such packages > through the usual source-drop process, we need to maintain a list so > that the CentOS team can monitor those packages more closely. > > > > Happy Building! > > -- > > Brian Stinson > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org <mailto:CentOS-devel at centos.org> > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > I have an outstanding action to make sure this gets into CBS properly. --Brian