This should normally be an edge case that only occurs during the time between a RHEL point release and the corresponding CentOS Linux rebuild. Historically that usually takes about a month. As more and more content is built in CentOS Stream we hope to be able to reduce that. In the case of zstd, the EPEL maintainer jumped the gun and retired the package two months before the RHEL 8.2 release (despite me asking to retire it at 8.2 GA), so there was a longer gap than necessary. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1806759 Regarding using CentOS Stream for your use case, be aware that EPEL is built against RHEL, so it's possible to run into issues where an EPEL package doesn't work on CentOS Stream. This is a known issue that we haven't come to a conclusion yet on how to handle. On a related note, EPEL faces similar challenges when RHEL bumps a library soname. The maintainer has to choose between updating the package to be compatible with RHEL and breaking installation on CentOS, or leaving RHEL installations broken until CentOS catches up. Anecdotally I think most maintainers choose the latter. It's not an exact science. On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 6:23 PM Michel Alexandre Salim <michel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 5/14/20 1:03 PM, Troy Dawson wrote: > > On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 12:32 PM Michel Alexandre Salim > > <michel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 8-stream: > >> > >> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/ > >> > >> 8.1.1911 does not have the package: > >> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/centos/8.1.1911/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/ > >> > > > > There is the EPEL archives. > > This is fairly recent, but we did a snapshot of 8.1 a bit before 8.2 came out. > > We plan on doing this for each minor release (7 and 8). > > Fedora Archives are not on all the mirrors, so it might be a little > > slower, depending on where you get it from, but at least it's there. > > https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/8.1/ > > > Oh, that's an option, thanks. the archives site tends not to be mirrored > as widely though, so if we want to use it we might end up mirroring it > internally. > > Per what Paul said (using Stream) I suppose we could also enable the > Stream repo but set it at a lower priority so we only use packages that > are not found elsewhere. > > Thanks, > > -- > Michel Alexandre Salim > profile: https://keybase.io/michel_slm > chat via email: https://delta.chat/ > GPG key: 96A7 A6ED FB4D 2113 4056 3257 CAF9 AD10 ACB1 BEF2 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > -- Carl George _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
