[CentOS-devel] CPE to staff EPEL work

Fri Dec 17 20:09:50 UTC 2021
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 12/17/21 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
> 

In general, this statement is true .. BUT .. specifically for SIG 
release files, those would be able to be included.