On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 3:07 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2058274
fails to build with:
DEBUG util.py:444: No matching package to install: 'ocaml-dune >= 1.0'
This package is in RHEL 9 buildroot (ocaml-dune-2.8.5-5.el9.x86_64).
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?
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. 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.
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.
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