On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 6:07 AM Peter Georg <peter.georg at physik.uni-regensburg.de> wrote: > > On 04/04/2023 13.58, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > > On 03/04/2023 19:03, Peter Georg wrote: > >> (Second) gentle reminder that the second question below has not been > >> addressed yet. Any thoughts? Thanks for taking your time! > >> > >> It'd also be helpful if anybody can provide any information on who I > >> need to ping to get a decision on that matter. Thanks! > >> > >> On 27/01/2023 12.38, Peter Georg wrote: > >>> Gentle reminder that the second question below has not been addressed > >>> yet. Any thoughts? Thanks for taking your time. > >>> > >>> > >>> On 15/12/2022 00.04, Peter Georg wrote: > >>>> Dear all, > >>>> > >>> <snip> > >>>> > >>>> The second open question concerns the centos-release-* packages > >>>> provided by SIGs to allow users to easily consume SIGs' content. For > >>>> 8s and 9s the CBS tags > >>>> extras<el>-extras-common-{candidate,testing,release} are used to > >>>> build these packages. This repository is added in CentOS Stream 8 > >>>> and 9. > >>>> For packages build for RHEL 8 and 9 there is currently no common way > >>>> to provide any means of easing the process to consume SIGs' content. > >>>> My proposal to fix this is by adding > >>>> extras<el>-extras-common-{candidate,testing,release} for <el> = 8 > >>>> and 9, i.e., using the same system as currently used for 8s and 9s. > >>>> > >>>> To further ease the process I propose to introduce a package named > >>>> centos-release-extras which contains the repository config pointing > >>>> to the content of the tags > >>>> extras<el>-extras-common-{testing,release} (only -release enabled by > >>>> default) and the CentOS-SIG-Extras GPG key. The > >>>> centos-release-extras packages itself would be built in the > >>>> extras<el>-extras-common-el<el> build target. Users of RHEL would > >>>> then only need to install this single package to allow them to > >>>> easily install any other centos-release-* packages. Obviously > >>>> someone needs to maintain the centos-release-extras package. I > >>>> volunteer to maintain this package. Are you asking to create and ship this package in the RHEL repos directly? josh