[EPEL-devel] Re: [CentOS-devel] Handling packages retired in epel but not yet available in CentOS?

2020-05-15 Thread Troy Dawson
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 10:37 AM Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > Or have a "purgatory" repo where packages retired in EL 8.2 get to live > until, say, a month after CentOS 8.2 is GA? Again, seems like too much work. > Or, perhaps we could archive things before a release. I guess my reply got

[EPEL-devel] Re: [CentOS-devel] Handling packages retired in epel but not yet available in CentOS?

2020-05-15 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On 5/14/20 4:59 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: It's an ongoing problem. EPEL's decision to show only the most recent versions of RPMs, and to trim old RPMs out, is a destabilizing problem and why I make hrdlinked snapshots of EPEL using "rsnapshot" for internal access to old packages. So

[EPEL-devel] Re: [CentOS-devel] Handling packages retired in epel but not yet available in CentOS?

2020-05-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 09:06, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 8:02 AM Stephen John Smoogen > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 20:00, Nico Kadel-Garcia > wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 3:32 PM Michel Alexandre Salim > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > Hi, > >> >

[EPEL-devel] Re: [CentOS-devel] Handling packages retired in epel but not yet available in CentOS?

2020-05-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 20:00, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 3:32 PM Michel Alexandre Salim > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > We're working on validating CentOS 8 for some desktop use cases at work, > > and noticed that after working fine on a machine that's installed > > several

[EPEL-devel] Re: [CentOS-devel] Handling packages retired in epel but not yet available in CentOS?

2020-05-14 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On 5/14/20 1:03 PM, Troy Dawson wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 12:32 PM Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/zstd/history/dead.package?identifier=epel8 The package is only in BaseOS in 8.2 though, and CentOS 8.2 is not out -- the only repo that has it now is

[EPEL-devel] Re: [CentOS-devel] Handling packages retired in epel but not yet available in CentOS?

2020-05-14 Thread Troy Dawson
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 12:32 PM Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > > Hi, > > We're working on validating CentOS 8 for some desktop use cases at work, > and noticed that after working fine on a machine that's installed > several months ago, it's now failing on a freshly-installed machine. > > Turns