On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 8:12 PM Orion Poplawski <orion@nwra.com> 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

Sorry, but those numbers are wrong for a comparison.

There are not 15,000 unique packages in AppStream, not even close.

What I believe you, or they, are counting is the total number of packages released.

So, if the kernel has been released 15 times since Stream 8 started, then it's counted as 15.

Because of that, it's natural for the numbers to be bigger, because Stream 8 has been out longer.

If you want the numbers, I can get them.

Last time I checked, RHEL9 was very close to the same number of packages as RHEL8.

It was more, but very close to the same number.

Troy