On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 4:15 AM Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch> wrote: > > > On 1/5/22 05:06, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > >> Am 05.01.22 um 11:02 schrieb Simon Matter: > >>> Hi, > >>> I have to port/build quite a number of packages for upcoming RHEL9. I > thought about starting to do so now on CentOS-Stream-9-20211222.0 in > the > >>> hope that I don't have to redo a lot of the work again later for the > released RHEL9. > >>> Does it sound like a good idea to start now or should I better wait a > bit? > >> I'm already doing that. Do just expect everything that also happened in > EL8. Missing devel or sub packages. Striped down s/rpm macros that > blocks building fedora packages directly. So, business as usual. BTW, > some packages are not in streams anymore. This makes custom > overlay > >> repos a bit easier ... > > I think you can build directly against the repos in the centos stream koji. > > https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/kojifiles/ > > We're not using koji so I don't know how I could make use of these repos. > > I've done a number of the easier builds now and they went well. Now I'm > trying to build a package which requires imake but I can't find it > anywhere. > > I guess imake could be missing because the Xorg stuff is being built > without it today? > > Does anybody know if imake is still used but not shipped or is it not used > and built for EL9 anymore? imake is not included in EL9 at all. It could be packaged and added to EPEL9 for those interested in doing so. josh