EPEL 8 Beta/Alpha?

[Thomas Stephen Lee]

I downloaded and installed

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/powering-its-future-while-preserving-present-...

But many packages I use regularly are from EPEL.

When can we expect EPEL 8 Beta/Alpha?

thanks

--

Lee

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:53:58 +0530
Thomas Stephen Lee  wrote:
> I downloaded and installed
>
> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/powering-its-future-while-preserving-present-...
>
> But many packages I use regularly are from EPEL.
>
> When can we expect EPEL 8 Beta/Alpha?

I seem to remember that for EL-7 we generally just branched the f19
packages for epel7, rebuilt and that was pretty much it.

That's not going to work for EL-8, which looks like it's going to need
significant investments in modules. For instance, there are a large
number of perl module packages in EPEL-7, which would need rebuilding
for both perl 5.24 and perl 5.26 as both versions are available as
modules in EL-8 beta. Or do we just support the default perl stack?
Does everything go in one perl module or is there a hierarchy?

Similar could apply for libraries and the applications that require
them - how is the module hierarchy going to be defined? Separate
libraries and application modules, or libraries bundled with
applications? Or take it on a case by case basis?

I'm very much new to modularity myself and haven't got my head round
what I think would be the best approach yet.

Paul.

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 5:29 AM Paul Howarth  wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:53:58 +0530
>
> I seem to remember that for EL-7 we generally just branched the f19
> packages for epel7, rebuilt and that was pretty much it.

I thought it was more of an "opt-in" situation, that packages that had a EL
-1 branch didn't automatically get an EL new branch?

I would definitely like the opportunity to do some major version upgrades
of some of the packages I maintain.

Thanks,
Richard

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 07:01:04 -0600
Richard Shaw  wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 5:29 AM Paul Howarth 
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:53:58 +0530
> >
> > I seem to remember that for EL-7 we generally just branched the f19
> > packages for epel7, rebuilt and that was pretty much it.
>
> I thought it was more of an "opt-in" situation, that packages that
> had a EL -1 branch didn't automatically get an EL new branch?
>
> I would definitely like the opportunity to do some major version
> upgrades of some of the packages I maintain.

It was mostly opt-in as I recall it, but some packages got EPEL
branches for the first time as they were needed as dependencies. Anyone
packaging for EPEL-8 should of course be free to choose whichever
version of their package is best suited to it; I think f19 was the
latest at the time of the EL7 beta release when a lot of stuff got
built.

Paul.

[Thomas Stephen Lee]

Hi All,

Probably you already know this.

RHEL 8 is based on Fedora 28

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/road-red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-beta

thanks

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Lee

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:47 PM Paul Howarth  wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 07:01:04 -0600
> Richard Shaw  wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 5:29 AM Paul Howarth 
> > wrote:
> > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:53:58 +0530
> > >
> > > I seem to remember that for EL-7 we generally just branched the f19
> > > packages for epel7, rebuilt and that was pretty much it.
> >
> > I thought it was more of an "opt-in" situation, that packages that
> > had a EL -1 branch didn't automatically get an EL new branch?
> >
> > I would definitely like the opportunity to do some major version
> > upgrades of some of the packages I maintain.
>
> It was mostly opt-in as I recall it, but some packages got EPEL
> branches for the first time as they were needed as dependencies. Anyone
> packaging for EPEL-8 should of course be free to choose whichever
> version of their package is best suited to it; I think f19 was the
> latest at the time of the EL7 beta release when a lot of stuff got
> built.
>
> Paul.
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[Thomas Stephen Lee]

Hi All,

https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8

RHEL 8 is released.

thanks

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Lee

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 10:43 AM Thomas Stephen Lee 
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Probably you already know this.
>
> RHEL 8 is based on Fedora 28
>
> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/road-red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-beta
>
> thanks
>
> --
>
> Lee
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:47 PM Paul Howarth  wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 07:01:04 -0600
> > Richard Shaw  wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 5:29 AM Paul Howarth 
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:53:58 +0530
> > > >
> > > > I seem to remember that for EL-7 we generally just branched the f19
> > > > packages for epel7, rebuilt and that was pretty much it.
> > >
> > > I thought it was more of an "opt-in" situation, that packages that
> > > had a EL -1 branch didn't automatically get an EL new branch?
> > >
> > > I would definitely like the opportunity to do some major version
> > > upgrades of some of the packages I maintain.
> >
> > It was mostly opt-in as I recall it, but some packages got EPEL
> > branches for the first time as they were needed as dependencies. Anyone
> > packaging for EPEL-8 should of course be free to choose whichever
> > version of their package is best suited to it; I think f19 was the
> > latest at the time of the EL7 beta release when a lot of stuff got
> > built.
> >
> > Paul.
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