Hello Fedora EPEL maintainers!
First I don't feel comfortable announcing this, I'm not happy about the
situation and so I don't want to be the lightning rod :-). But I believe
that we can come to acceptable Copr/Mock solution and this needs to be
discussed... so here we are.
By the end of the year 2021 we have to fix our default EPEL 8 Mock
configuration (mock-core-configs.rpm, /etc/mock/epel-8-*.cfg) as CentOS 8
goes EOL by then.
The same thing needs to happen in Fedora Copr, with the epel-8-* chroots
(side note, in Fedora Copr we use the mock-core-configs package for builds
without any deployment specific modifications).
I am proposing (as PR against mock upstream ATM [1]) to switch the default
epel-* configuration from CentOS+EPEL to RHEL+EPEL as soon as possible
(see the pull request [1]).
This would bring some consequences, namely newly with epel-8* chroots,
- builds will require a valid Red Hat subscription (the no-cost variant is
OK as well, though [2])
- we will miss some build-time packages that Red Hat is not shipping, at
least at the beginning till they are added (to RHEL CRB, or other
currently unknown place).
- cross-arch compilation can not be used, Red Hat subscriptions don't
allow that (using QEMU and rpm --forcearch), [3]
The positive thing is that the default configuration will be much closer
to the official EPEL builds (because Fedora Koji EPEL builds are actually done
also against RHEL).
For the Fedora Copr builders, we already have the necessary Red Hat
subscriptions in hand (will be deployed by the end of the year). So we will
only loose the opportunity to build on emulated epel-8-armhfp permanently, and
epel-8-s390x temporarily (as we already work on the native s390x support).
Any thoughts? Feedback is needed here.
[1] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/pull/802
[2] https://rpm-software-management.github.io/mock/Feature-rhelchroots
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1912847
Pavel
Hello,
People are sometimes curious how many builders Copr has available, where
they are located, etc. We had this simple table with pools of builders for
quite some time
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/resalloc/pools
but newly, we added a description for every pool (click the pool name),
trying to answer the common questions.
If anybody asks, you can point them to the table :-)
Jakub
