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,
>
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> 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.
>
>
> [1]: https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/82
> [2]: https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/1002