> 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. So, can we expect that what is included in baseos+appstream+crb is what will be available in RHEL9? Simon