[CentOS-devel] CPE to staff EPEL work

Fri Dec 17 20:04:48 UTC 2021
Brian Stinson <brian at bstinson.com>

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021, at 13:44, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 02:59:30PM +0000, lejeczek via CentOS-devel wrote:
>> On 13/12/2021 21:21, Rich Bowen wrote:
>> > 
>> > 
>> > On 12/13/21 12:00, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> > > On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 at 11:45, lejeczek via CentOS-devel
>> > > <centos-devel at centos.org> wrote:
>> > > > 
>> > > > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 12:51 PM lejeczek via CentOS-devel
>> > > > and a month later...
>> > > > It's taking somewhat long.
>> > > > 
>> > > > I'll ask a question not just I must be thinking - obvious
>> > > > rather - is that wise to let one arch be a such a blocker
>> > > > for the whole lot?
>> > > > 
>> > > 
>> > > It isn't blocking anylonger. You seem to have missed the various
>> > > emails about EPEL-9 being built for the last several weeks.
>> > > 
>> > > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/9/
>> > > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/testing/9/
>> > > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/next/9/
>> > > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/testing/next/9/
>> > 
>> > Also https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/epel-9-is-now-available/ on
>> > December 3rd.
>> > 
>> > 
>> If it is all functional and ready for consumption - why not include its
>> package in default(s) repo (as it's been with all previous CentOSes) instead
>> of adding more instructions & howtos.
>> Then 'dnf repoinfo' should give out enough info for admin to know what is
>> what.
>> 
> That's a good question. I'm guessing it's because CS9 is a proper
> upstream to RHEL9, whereas even CS8 is actually still a rebuild, so CS9
> can't ship anything RHEL9 won't ship.
>
> Note how for all RHELs you always have to use DNF with a URL to the
> epel-release RPM:
>
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/#_el9
>
> Best,
>
> -- 
> Michel Alexandre Salim
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For convenience, we've historically included epel-release in the Extras repository, and we'll do the same for CentOS Stream 9. 

This means you can `dnf install epel-release` on CentOS Stream and then EPEL repo definitions will be added to /etc/yum.repos.d

--Brian