Hello maintainers.
Currently, we build all EPEL variants against CentOS "base" in Fedora
Copr, i.e. epel-* configs means CentOS+EPEL. By the end of January 2022
CentOS 8 mirrors will start disappearing, pushing us to change the configs
to avoid build failures.
We would like to start the migration to the RHEL base as soon as possible,
so we are at least a bit "ahead" the change. So we can start resolving
the issues.
There doesn't seem to be a real blocker, or known issue.
- We got enough subscriptions from Red Hat for Fedora Copr purposes to
start building against official RHEL channels.
- The Mock + configs is stuck in Bodhi for now, but it doesn't block
Copr to apply for the change earlier. This is mostly about community
decision that 'fedpkg mockbuild' is not aligned, yet, not that Mock is
broken.
- The remaining problem seemed to be the s390x architecture, as the
emulation being _currently_ done wouldn't work with Red Hat
subscriptions, see details in [1] discussion. But thanks to IBM
sponsoring us IBM Cloud access we should be OK to deploy the s390x
arch support in Fedora Copr at the same time with the EPEL change
(this will go in a separate announcement).
**So the plan is to move to RHEL + EPEL next Monday, 2022-01-17.** If
everything works well at least.
Side note from me... Note that EPEL 9 in Fedora Copr is still CentOS
Stream 9 + EPEL 9 ATM. This will change to "RHEL 9 + EPEL 9" once RHEL 9
is generally available (subscribed content). Might seem as a
complication for users, but it's actually not - it is good thing we can
start working on EPEL 9 now. So I want to congratulate to EPEL community
here, the fact we have stream in place allows us to bring EPEL 9 up before
actually RHEL is available. That's an awesome step (jump) forward
compared to previous releases!
[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/7T5N6SCPCWHNAUIFPFD54Z6CTLLZMJ6F/
Pavel
These are awesome updates,
it seems to me that COPR is always ahead of the pack.
Jean Marc