On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 7:51 AM Mohan Boddu <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 9:58 AM Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 9:39 AM Kevin Fenzi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 08:32:27PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This is very exciting!
> > > >
> > > > However, question here: At least for the bootstrap for RHEL 9 GA,
> > > > couldn't we use the EPEL9 next buildroot to rebuild everything once
> > > > instead of rebuilding 5 times? We can then remove the EPEL9 next
> > > > buildroot from the EPEL9 buildroot so that state doesn't persist
> after
> > > > everything is done. This also makes it so we can ignore the
> > > > "noautobuild" file the one time that all the content needs to be
> > > > properly seeded in EPEL9.
> > >
> > > But at the time of RHEL9.0 GA, cs9 may well have already moved on to
> > > 9.1... so that might result in stuff that doesn't work/install/depsolve
> > > with 9.0? Or am I missing something there...
> > >
> >
> > Based on what goes on now for EPEL8 and EPEL8 next, I think the
> > likelihood of that being a problem is fairly low. Ones where this is a
> > problem can be individually handled after the reset, and we'd waste
> > far less build resources in doing so.
>
> I still dont understand the advantages of it, we will be running the
> mass rebuild after RHEL 9.0 GA, so it wont be saving time (other than
> the time needed to setup the epel9 buildroot from rhel9 content). We
> will rebuild everything, so it wont be saving any builder/storage
> resources.
>
> I still prefer epel9 is built from rhel9 rather than CS after rhel
> goes GA as it always has been.
>

What about, instead of the epel9-next buildroot, we just use the epel9-next
repo.  Those packages that have already been built for epel9-next.
That way, we'd get all those dependencies that we built up in epel9-next,
without any CentOS Stream 9 packages that might have moved on.

Troy
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