Re: [CentOS] Is EPEL compatible with Stream?

2021-01-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/4/21 3:05 AM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: I would expect broken update paths. Also after EOL of CentOS Linux but not sure if they plan a new "playground" repo: EPEL-NEXT ... see here:

Re: [CentOS] Is EPEL compatible with Stream?

2021-01-04 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 23:05, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 1/3/21 8:34 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 18:20, Gordon Messmer > > wrote: > > > >> On 1/3/21 2:51 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > >>> is it still OK to set up EPEL as a repo? > >> > >> > >> Yes. CentOS Stream is

Re: [CentOS] Is EPEL compatible with Stream?

2021-01-04 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 03.01.21 um 23:51 schrieb Kay Schenk: Hello all-- All good in the Stream for me. :) Because Stream will tend to be more "forward moving" than previous CentOS releases, is it still OK to set up EPEL as a repo? So far, I've only installed terminus fonts from CentOS 8 EPEL, but I'm just

Re: [CentOS] Is EPEL compatible with Stream?

2021-01-04 Thread Thomas Bendler
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 6:44 AM Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 1/3/21 8:05 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > > So how would one use this shiny bit of information? Is there a way to > > discover if an EPEL application is going to clobber your system before > > you install it? > As long as the upstream

Re: [CentOS] Is EPEL compatible with Stream?

2021-01-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/3/21 8:05 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: So how would one use this shiny bit of information?  Is there a way to discover if an EPEL application is going to clobber your system before you install it? As long as the upstream developers observe semantic versioning, dnf would tell whether or

Re: [CentOS] Is EPEL compatible with Stream?

2021-01-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/3/21 5:34 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Except in cases where packages in a RHEL point release are being rebased. This is something which is happening with a lot more gusto than in any previous releases so there may be points where say a QT or a gnomelib provides in Stream is ahead of

Re: [CentOS] Is EPEL compatible with Stream?

2021-01-03 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 1/3/21 8:34 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 18:20, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 1/3/21 2:51 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: is it still OK to set up EPEL as a repo? Yes. CentOS Stream is expected to be backward-compatible with RHEL, for the same reason that each RHEL point

Re: [CentOS] Is EPEL compatible with Stream?

2021-01-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 18:20, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 1/3/21 2:51 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > is it still OK to set up EPEL as a repo? > > > Yes. CentOS Stream is expected to be backward-compatible with RHEL, for > the same reason that each RHEL point release is backward-compatible with >

Re: [CentOS] Is EPEL compatible with Stream?

2021-01-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/3/21 2:51 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: is it still OK to set up EPEL as a repo? Yes.  CentOS Stream is expected to be backward-compatible with RHEL, for the same reason that each RHEL point release is backward-compatible with previous point releases.

[CentOS] Is EPEL compatible with Stream?

2021-01-03 Thread Kay Schenk
Hello all-- All good in the Stream for me. :) Because Stream will tend to be more "forward moving" than previous CentOS releases, is it still OK to set up EPEL as a repo? So far, I've only installed terminus fonts from CentOS 8 EPEL, but I'm just wondering about this. Generally, are there