On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 12:19 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 31. 08. 22 23:08, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
>
> When EPEL-8 was launched, it came with some support for modules with the hope
> that a module ecosystem could be built from Fedora packages using RHEL modules
> as an underlying tool. This has never happened and we have ended up with a
> muddle of modular packages which will 'build' but may not install or even run
> on an EL-8 system. Attempts to fix this and work within how EPEL is normally
> built have been tried for several years by different people but have not worked.
>
> At this point it is time to say this experiment with modules in EPEL has not
> worked and focus resources on what does work. I would like to propose that
> modular support is removed from EPEL by January 2023.
>
> Steps:
> 1. Approval of this proposal by the EPEL Steering committee and any other ones
> required.
> 2. Announcement of end of life to various lists.
2.5 - move epel-modular.repo and epel-testing-modular.repo to it's own sub-package of epel-repos-modular
> 3. Archiving of the modules on XYZ date to /pub/archive/epel/8.YYYY-MM/Modular
> and pointing mirrormanager to that for that
> 4. Make changes in bodhi to turn off reporting about modules for EL8.
> 5. Make changes in MBS configs to turn off building modules for EL8.
> 6. Make changes in PDC for EL8 modules
> 7. Make changes in compose scripts and tools to no longer cover EPEL-8 modules
> 8. Remove epel-8 modules from /pub/epel/8
> 9. Announce closure of this proposal and any lessons learned.
10. Drop https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/epel-release/blob/epel8/f/epel-testing-modular.repo from epel-repos-modular
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