Someone brought this proposal to me, I'd like to get others feedback.
Proposal:
EPEL would make its own "devel" repo, with the missing RHEL packages,
grabbing the packages from the publicly available centos stream koji
builds.[1] For example, the missing lmdb-devel would be downloaded from
here.[2]
We would have a list of missing packages, along with their corresponding
source rpm name. Whenever that source rpm get's updated in RHEL, we would
grab the updated missing packages, and regenerate the "devel" repo.
This should work for epel8, epel8-next, epel9, epel9-next
I realize that this will require some up front work, but I'd like to get
people's ideas about the proposal.
Troy
[1] -
https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/
[2] -
https://koji.mbox.centos.org/pkgs/packages/lmdb/0.9.24/1.el8/x86_64/lmdb-...