On 1/14/22 03:29, Miro Hrončok wrote:
On 14. 01. 22 5:11, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> While working on EPEL9, it seems that even more packages are missing
> from RHEL9 than were in RHEL8. The latest I found was cppunit, which
> appears to be completely missing from the CS9 repos despite having
> been built (See
>
https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=2414) and
> presumably in the CS9/RHEL9 buildroot.
>
> So I scraped some screens from
pkgs.org:
>
> Stream 9:
>
> CentOS AppStream Official x86_64 8882
> CentOS BaseOS Official x86_64 2357
> CentOS CRB Official x86_64 1856
>
> Stream 8:
>
> CentOS AppStream Official x86_64 15008
> CentOS BaseOS Official x86_64 6721
> CentOS PowerTools Official x86_64 3771
>
> That's a pretty big difference. Now, I don't know how many were
> dropped completely and how many are of the "buildroot only" variety.
> But I suspect there is a fair amount of the latter and so a lot of
> make-work ahead of us for EPEL9.
>
> Packaging for EPEL9 is starting to feel more and more like cleaning
> the Augean stables with RedHat piling up more manure.
If there is any Python stuff that's in Buildroot only, let me know and
I'll do my best to persuade the maintainers to move it to CRB (but my
powers are limited).
Recently I came across the python-zope-* packages, e.g.:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2038512
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