On 10/7/19 12:27 PM, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
>> On 7. Oct 2019, at 18:17, Jose Marques <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> On 7 Oct 2019, at 16:43, Fait, James F. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>   The only thing concerning me so far is the lack of packages in EPEL. There are things we use from EPEL on SL7 that are not present in EPEL on Centos8. Maybe it's still being built out but if not then that may delay us deploying it (more things we have to package).
> 
> AFAIK EPEL is built on CentOS systems, and given that CentOS 8 has been out for just a couple of days now I wouldn't expect EPEL 8 to be anywhere near complete for now. Chances are this will work out.

EPEL is built on RHEL - it's actually one of the points that helps sell 
it with RHEL customers.  We may start building on CentOS for platforms 
that RHEL does not support but CentOS does.

If there are packages missing from EPEL that you want, file a bug in 
bugzilla.redhat.com against the component under Fedora EPEL.  There is 
no magic for EPEL packages to appear - it requires someone (generally 
the package maintainer) to request a branch and build it.  And without 
any outside input they tend to just scratch their own itches first.

> What I'm really curious about is folks' thoughts on "CentOS Stream". Will it scratch our itches?

That of course depends on what your itch is :).  If it is submitting PRs 
  and advance testing of RHEL X.Y+0.1 then yes.  Perhaps more 
interesting once CentOS 9 Stream appears, assuming it does.


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