On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 4:05 PM Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 01:16:47PM -0500, Merlin Mathesius wrote:
> I was asked to draft a plan stating what EPEL 8 should do regarding
> Software Collections. The draft I came up with is included below.
Looks good to me. +1 here.
> EPEL Steering Committee: Please ratify this plan or provide feedback as
> necessary. When it's ready, and I will prepare a PR for this to land in
> https://pagure.io/epel/blob/master/f/docs/source
That would be great...
Thanks!
Anyone else?
I went ahead and created https://pagure.io/epel/pull-request/81
Merlin
kevin
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> Regards,
>
> Merlin
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>
>
> *Regarding EPEL and Software Collections*
> *Background*
>
> For RHEL 8, Red Hat made the decision to provide multiple versions of
> software in the form of App Stream modules instead of Red Hat Software
> Collections (RHSCLs).
>
> SCLs are maintained by the CentOS Software Collections SIG, not the EPEL
> SIG.
>
> RHEL 8 comes with the scl-utils and scl-utils-build packages--which contain
> tools for using and building SCLs. These packages appear to function as
> expected with RHEL 8 and CentOS 8.
>
> *Recommendations*
>
> EPEL will not provide SCL support, although it will not prohibit use of the
> SCL tools provided with RHEL 8.
>
> EPEL will not provide any SCLs.
>
> EPEL encourages the community to follow Red Hat’s lead and provide multiple
> versions of software for RHEL 8 and CentOS 8 in the form of modules rather
> than SCLs.
>
> For use cases that require the parallel installation of multiple versions
> of the same component, EPEL recommends the same solution as RHEL 8:
> containers.
>
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