On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 04:21:56AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 3:07 AM Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2058274
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> fails to build with:
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> DEBUG util.py:444: No matching package to install: 'ocaml-dune >=
1.0'
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> This package is in RHEL 9 buildroot (ocaml-dune-2.8.5-5.el9.x86_64).
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> I read an earlier thread ("Subject: [EPEL-devel] Re: Packages
> disappearing from the EPEL 9 buildroot") and it seems to indicate that
> RHEL 9 buildroot packages aren't going to be available in EPEL 9.
> This seems crazy, is it really correct?
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It's not crazy. EPEL is intended to build on RHEL content, which means
we can't depend on something RHEL doesn't publish. If Red Hat wants to
publish their buildroot repo, then sure, we could use it.
I wasn't very clear, but I was addressing my remark at Red Hat.
There's really no reason why we (Red Hat) don't publish buildroot, in
fact my personal view is we ought to for open source reasons.
Just because it happens to exist in the CentOS Stream 9 buildroot
content does not mean we would be able to rely on it once we replace
CentOS Stream with RHEL for EPEL 9. Thus, we don't use the CentOS
Stream 9 buildroot either.
So this was going to be my next question - is it that difficult to use
C9S buildroot packages to replace the "missing" ones? AFAIK they
ought to be almost identical. Obviously they are rebuilds and they
might be a little out of sync, but saves EPEL doing a literal third
rebuild of the same content!
If we did, we'd wind up in a situation where packages were built
once
and then not buildable ever again. That already kind of happened when
we initially had that buildroot repo in the EPEL build environment and
it made it way harder for us to figure out what gaps we had for things
to build against RHEL later. We've fortunately dealt with the small
number of cases that occurred from then.
I'm not sure I totally understand this bit. Is it right to say that
packages wouldn't be "buildable ever again" only in the case where we
used C9S buildroot and then dropped it? If we just use C9S buildroot
packages + RHEL 9 packages - forever - we'd be OK?
Rich.
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