On 19 May 2019 01:58:59 Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
kevin
Thanks for making that very clear. I was afraid of that. RHEL 8 is dead for
us from that point until Epel 8 is released. More than 6 months old
application versions in AppStream are not very helpful though. We won't
leave RHEL/CentOS in favour of a bleeding edge distro in production as we
love the stable core system for years now. But for some apps we simply run
latest versions and this seems impossible without an Epel basis. AppStreams
won't help with more often releases if they are 6-12 months behind
upstream, if that is enough estimated at all.
Thanks Kevin. Hope everything works out in the best time possible.
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