[CentOS-devel] [EPEL-devel] Re: Handling packages retired in epel but not yet available in CentOS?

Thu May 14 23:23:10 UTC 2020
Michel Alexandre Salim <michel at michel-slm.name>


On 5/14/20 1:03 PM, Troy Dawson wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 12:32 PM Michel Alexandre Salim
> <michel at michel-slm.name> wrote:

>> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/zstd/history/dead.package?identifier=epel8
>>
>> The package is only in BaseOS in 8.2 though, and CentOS 8.2 is not out
>> -- the only repo that has it now is 8-stream:
>>
>> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/
>>
>> 8.1.1911 does not have the package:
>> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/centos/8.1.1911/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/
>>
> 
> There is the EPEL archives.
> This is fairly recent, but we did a snapshot of 8.1 a bit before 8.2 came out.
> We plan on doing this for each minor release (7 and 8).
> Fedora Archives are not on all the mirrors, so it might be a little
> slower, depending on where you get it from, but at least it's there.
> https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/8.1/
> 
Oh, that's an option, thanks. the archives site tends not to be mirrored 
as widely though, so if we want to use it we might end up mirroring it 
internally.

Per what Paul said (using Stream) I suppose we could also enable the 
Stream repo but set it at a lower priority so we only use packages that 
are not found elsewhere.

Thanks,

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