On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 19:58, Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote: > On 5/18/19 12:58 AM, TG Servers wrote: > > Hi, > > > > as RHEL 8 was released it was clear to us that due to the new > > infrastructure requirements there will be some more work to do for EPEL > > 8 to be released. > > Iirc form reading your plans it will be at least 8-10 weeks until there > > will be an EPEL 8, unclear if it is really stable at that point. > > Right. > > > Is there anything, aside from older versions, which holds one back from > > using EPEL 7 for the time being with RHEL 8 in production? > > We don't really need that much from EPEL directly but are using repos in > > production which depend on EPEL. > > Or is this considered that unsafe we have to wait until EPEL 8 is done? > > I don't think it would have any chance of working. The libraries in > rhel8 are completely different from rhel7. I don't think any epel7 rpms > will install, and if they do, I doubt they would work at all. > > I tried this at one point during the beta. Yes you can get some things to install. Very few of them worked. If you are needing applications to work on RHEL-8, your best bet to get things to install will be Fedora-28. Many of these packages will install without problems and mostly work. [There are of course some ABI differences which rpm can't determine but you may find.]
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