As of today COPR no longer works as it is missing an EPEL8 build. @martinpitt

[fmsy]

As of today COPR no longer works as it is missing an EPEL8 build. @martinpitt

It was present until at least 22/04/05 @ https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/@cockpit/cockpit-preview/epel-8-x86_64/

Are there any plans on providing EPEL8 builds again ?

Using the centos8stream builds is not an options as they depend on non-existent versions of policy-targeted

Originally posted by @fmsy in #17061 (reply in thread)

[martinpitt]

I disabled it a while ago, as we don't test epel-8 at all. I suppose the builds stayed around for a few weeks until COPR cleaned them up?

For technical reasons it's actually quite involved to change the build targets (packit/packit-service#1499), but I keep this open -- the next time we touch this, we can put it back on (but beware, it's entirely unsupported/untested).

[fmsy]

from what is visible to me i can see cockpit-185 @ el 8.0, then cockpit-251 @ el 8.5 and el 8.10 to be released in 2024 (from RHEL 8 Planning Guide)

wouldn't it be reasonable then to follow a non-stream el8 by having an epel8 build and testing it?

@martinpitt : bump. maybe my question has been missed due to vacation

[hfoy]

I second the request to re-implement epel-8 as build target for COPR.

[martinpitt]

This finally got unblocked by a packit improvement -- I just sent a bunch of PRs like #17783 to drop the hardcoded target list from our packit.yml. After all of these land, we gain back the flexibility of adding more COPR targets such as EPEL.

[martinpitt]

Sorry for letting this slip -- I finally enabled epel 8/9 for x86_64 and aarch64 on our COPR.