On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 12:38 PM Peter Georg <peter.georg at physik.uni-regensburg.de> wrote: > > > > 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. OK, thank you for the clarification. That's what I had interpreted but there was some confusion on the request so it's good to have clarity. josh