On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 7:15 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, 29 Dec 2021 at 06:29, Mattias Ellert <mattias.ellert@physics.uu.se> wrote:
Hi!

Two packages I built for EPEL 9 are now reported by koschei as having
missing build dependencies.

https://koschei.fedoraproject.org/package/davix?collection=epel9

https://koschei.fedoraproject.org/package/uglify-js?collection=epel9

The EPEL 9 builds were built using the following build dependencies
according to the root.log files:

rapidjson-devel-1.1.0-19.el9

Looks like this is a RHEL buildroot only package, thus can just be built in EPEL9.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-package-request/

web-assets-devel-5-15.el9

Although web-assets is built in RHEL9, they are only releasing web-assets-filesystem

Thus, we are missing web-assets-devel and web-assets-httpd

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-faq/#rhel_8_has_binaries_in_the_release_but_is_missing_some_corresponding__devel_package._how_do_i_build_a_package_that_needs_that_missing__devel_package

nodejs-packaging-2021.01-5.el9

Looks like this is a buildroot only package, thus can just be built in EPEL9.

Definitely something we need. I believe I can take that.

These can no longer be found in the koji buildroot. There are no
expired buildroot overrides for these builds, which could explain the
disappearance.

I can't find these builds in EPEL's koji, so I guess they where
provided by RHEL, but now are no longer? Did RHEL dop these?

OK there was a period in the EPEL-9 startup where the buildroot was pointing to a copy of the CentOS Stream-9 koji build root. This was done to help kickstart things, but it had the issue that packages that RHEL is not going to ship to customers were available also. About 2-3 weeks ago, the EPEL steering committee decided to move the buildroot to the properly shipped chain of packages in CentOS Stream versus the buildroot. This removed a bunch of packages that were 'available' but not going to be shipped. These packages will need to be made into epel-only packages or some other solution. I am fuzzy on this myself as I am from a different philosophy school of building and shipping packages.