On 05/04/2023 17.29, Josh Boyer wrote: > 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? No. I'm asking to be allowed to build a centos-release-extras package in to-be-created build targets (extras8-extras-common-el8 and extras9-extras-common-el9) on CBS. RHEL users would still be required to manually download this package similar to how they install EPEL. Peter > > josh > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel