On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 7:08 AM Enrico Tagliavini <enrico.tagliavini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello folks,I've just noticed that some packages in EPEL 8 are broken when used in CentOS 8 Stream. One example:which has been broken for a long time now (from well before I decided to finally report the bug).EPEL 8 is fundamental for me, I can't use the system without. So here is the important question: is the EPEL project going to support CentOS 8 Stream?With CentOS 8 gone I didn't mind to switch to CentOS 8 Stream, I thought that for my use it would be ok... until I noticed packages in EPEL 8 not working.It's very important for me to know the answer to this as if the answer is no I have to drop CentOS 8 Stream right away and switch to something else, like RockyLinux or Alma.Thank you.Kind regards.Enrico Tagliavini
Hi Enrico,
epel has epel-next that is compatible with CentOS Stream.
epel-next is layered on top of regular epel. It is meant to only have those packages that need to be rebuilt for CentOS Stream. This is because over 90% of epel packages "just work" on CentOS Stream.
If you have epel installed, you should also have epel-next-release installed. It should have happened automatically, but if it didn't, you can do a
dnf install epel-next-release
All that being said, you did the correct thing in opening a bug. It's possible the package maintainer doesn't know that the package needs to be updated.
Although we are working on something automatic that will alert the maintainers when their packages are no longer installable in CentOS Stream, that is currently lower in priority to getting epel9-next out. Since EPEL is 100% volunteer driven, some things take more time to implement.
Again, thank you for the bug, it helps.
Troy Dawson
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