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 > profile: https://keyoxide.org/michel@michel-slm.name > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > Attachments: > * signature.asc 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