On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 10:12 AM Carl George <c...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 8:37 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > On 22/11/2021 15:00, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > > - builds will require a valid Red Hat subscription (the no-cost variant is > > > OK as well, though [2]) > > > > I'm going to retire all my EPEL8 packages as I can't build/test them in > > mock without any subscriptions. > > > > -- > > Sincerely, > > Vitaly Zaitsev (vit...@easycoding.org) > > _______________________________________________ > > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > > This has always been allowed. EPEL packagers are not required to > maintain their packages for the entire corresponding RHEL lifecycle. > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Retirement_Process/#_epel > > I will point out that it's trivial to avoid dealing with a > subscription by doing koji scratch builds, or by using the existing > oraclelinux-epel-8-x86_64 mock chroot, or by submitting equivalent > {clone}-epel-8-{arch} chroots to mock-core-configs for your preferred > clone. Mass retiring all of your epel8 packages seems like an > overreaction to me, but it is your choice. If you do decide to go > that route I hope you're welcoming to other maintainers that offer to > co-maintainer your packages to be responsible for the epel8 branch > going forward. Ideally you would also send an email to epel-devel > beforehand to avoid a quick retire/unretire churn for the packages > other maintainers are interested in keeping around. >
Note that I've submitted a PR to switch from CentOS Linux to AlmaLinux[1] for similar reasons (my workflow would be totally broken if I had to deal with the foibles of subscription-manager for building packages). [1]: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/pull/803 -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
