On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 7:15 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 4:46 PM Brian Stinson <brian at bstinson.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021, at 14:47, Odilon Junior wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > As the $SUBJECT says, after the latest release of Centos 8, the Devel[1] repo is not populated. > > > > I can see the packages for 8.4.2105[2]. Is this expected for this latest release? > > > > --- > > Regards, > > Odilon > > > > 1 - http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/Devel/x86_64/ > > 2 - https://vault.centos.org/8.4.2105/Devel/ > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS-devel mailing list > > CentOS-devel at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > > > > > That is expected. Just a reminder CentOS Linux 8 goes End Of Life in December: https://www.centos.org/centos-linux-eol/ please plan accordingly. > > I don't think anyone expected this. There was no reason to expect the > individual channel to be shut off several months in advance of the EOL > of the operating system. It's like moving the family to a new house > only after the move announce that the dog is not coming with us. > > This breaks working tools, like my tools that backport samba with full > and stable Heimdal based Kerberos According to the Samba maintainers, > the MIT kerberos used by the latest Fedora releases is not yet well > enough integrated for production work, which is why I publish > https://github.com/nkadel/samba4repo/ for Fedor and for RHEL releases. > But they rely on 'quota-devel' for compilation, which is used by RHEL > and CentOS for compiling their more limited versions of Samba but is > arbitrarily hidden under tablecloth over in the 'Devel' channel. quota-devel is available in PowerTools http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/PowerTools/x86_64/os/Packages/quota-devel-4.04-14.el8.x86_64.rpm http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/PowerTools/x86_64/os/Packages/quota-devel-4.04-14.el8.x86_64.rpm > > If you need a package that was previously in the Devel repo to support your migration you may download from vault.centos.org or from the buildsystem: https://koji.mbox.centos.org > > > > --Brian > > This kind of arbitrary, unannounced and unwelcome change is part of > why people are losing trust in Red Hat and in CentOS as a reliable > rebuild of RHEL It's mirrored by the very peculiar and illogical split > up of "ansible" to "ansible-core" and "ansible", which I've written > about elsewhere. This kind of refactoring is unwelcome and breaks > things, I'd have expected better from RHEL a few years ago. Now.... > I've lost considerable confidence in Red Hat and in CentOS ansible is a separate product from RHEL and is not part of RHEL itself. The refactoring is something the Ansible product is pursuing and we have to adapt to their plans. As a result, we will be including ansible-core in RHEL to enable rhel-system-roles, but the bulk of what people consider 'ansible' to be will still need to be acquired from outside of RHEL. josh