[CentOS] Is CentOS-Stream-9-20211222.0 suitable for building for RHEL9

Wed Jan 5 16:23:19 UTC 2022
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

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/