[CentOS-devel] Can CentOS Stream 8 Devel repo be populated

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 2:48 PM Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org> wrote:

> On 17/05/2021 20:46, Phil Perry wrote:
> > On 17/05/2021 20:30, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> >> On 5/17/21 1:46 PM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> >>>
>

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> >>>
> >>> This is mostly because we also don't ship it in RHEL and we don't ship
> >>> it there because we don't want to be on the hook to support it (even
> >>> RHEL has a budget and limited resources).
> >>>
> >>> As far as CentOS Stream, the promise is that if it runs in CentOS
> Stream
> >>> today it should run in the next version of RHEL.  By including content
> >>> in Stream that we don't include in RHEL, suddenly that promise is
> broken
> >>> if someone accidentally uses it assuming it's in RHEL.
> >>>
> >>> I'm not saying there aren't ways to work through these issues, but I
> >>> wanted to give some ideas as to the thought process that got us here.
> >>>
> >>>             -Mike
> >>>
> >>
> >> Mike,
> >>
> >> That is all well and good .. but it is your guys (EPEL and Red Hat SIGs)
> >> that need this Development content to be in CentOS Stream and the CentOS
> >> Community Build System to build things.  (I can build things as this
> >> content is already in my Koji buildroot).
> >>
> >> And it is me, this list, and the CentOS Stream group that keep getting
> >> asked (by EPEL and the RH SIGs) why this open source stuff can not be in
> >> CentOS Linux, CentOS Stream and the CBS.
> >>
> >> Surely we can set up a non RHEL released repo that your guys can use to
> >> build the things that they want.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Johnny Hughes
> >
> >
> > But from what Mike just said, EPEL/SIGs should be building against those
> > missing -devel packages on Stream because anything built on Stream must
> > also run on RHEL?
> >
>
> Sorry, typo - EPEL/SIGs should NOT be building against those missing
> -devel packages...
>
>
I'm always confused by this because the basis of CRB *was* supposed to be
what was required to build EPEL.  I'm not sure if EPEL has grown since we
started or if we just missed the mark with CRB.

              -Mike
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