On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:15 AM Christopher Engelhard <ce@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 09.12.20 11:17, Miro Hrončok wrote: > > However, since CentOS Linux 8 (and 9!) will be no more, do we have some > > ideas how to handle this? Do we require all EPEL contributors to obtain > > the developer RHEL subscription (seems like a huge pain)? Do we switch > > to Oracle Linux (only half joking)? Do we try to fight this decision > > (however I am afraid I've exhausted my fight capacity on different > > decisions)? > > Intuitively, I think that requiring RHEL dev subscriptions would pretty > much kill EPEL packaging on Copr. Unless you specifically want to > create EPEL packages, why would you get and keep a RHEL dev subscription > when you could just not check the EPEL-boxes? > > From a purely technical perspective, i.e. pretending it were CentFork > Community Linux, are there reasons not to use Oracle Linux? Ignoring that Oracle gives me the heebie-jeebies, at this time, the only two reasonable options are: * CloudLinux's Project Lenix: https://blog.cloudlinux.com/announcing-open-sourced-community-driven-rhel-fork-by-cloudlinux * Oracle (Unmentionable) Linux: http://public-yum.oracle.com/index.html Oracle's variant is available now, but... yeah. The CloudLinux offering is supposed to become available in the next month or so. They don't seem to be terrible people and a lot of companies have been using their stuff for a while now, so I'm reasonably confident in their continual existence. If they're true to their word on their free RHEL clone offering, we could probably switch to it as the input for Mock and the Fedora COPR service. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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
