[EPEL-devel] Re: Handling packages retired in epel but not yet available in CentOS?

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 14 May 2020 12:31:40 -0700
Michel Alexandre Salim <michel(a)michel-slm.name&gt; wrote:
>  We're working on validating CentOS 8 for some desktop use cases
> at
>  work, and noticed that after working fine on a machine that's
>  installed several months ago, it's now failing on a freshly-installed
>  machine.
>  
>  Turns out that we need libzstd, which on the previous machine was 
>  sourced from the EPEL repo, but the epel8 package got retired 3
>  months ago because the package is now in RHEL's BaseOS:
>  
>  https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/zstd/history/dead.package?identifier=e...
>  
>  The package is only in BaseOS in 8.2 though, and CentOS 8.2 is not
>  out -- the only repo that has it now is 8-stream:
>  
>  https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/
>  
>  8.1.1911 does not have the package: 
>  https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/centos/8.1.1911/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/
>  
>  Also, the version in BaseOS (if 8-stream is up to date) is 1.4.2,
>  which is older than the last version in EPEL (1.4.4).
>  
>  Is anyone else in the same situation, and how do you work around it? 
>  Since EPEL is a sort of "rolling release" does it make sense to just 
>  track 8-stream if you're using it, or are people resorting to hosting 
>  these key packages in internal repos? 
That's what I'm doing. I got the sources from CentOS git
(https://git.centos.org/rpms/zstd/tree/c8), built it myself and hosted
it in a temporary local repo until CentOS 8.2 is out.

Paul.