RHEL/CentOS 8

[ikedas]

I'd like not to provide EL8 (and later) packages on Sympa-JA.org. @xavierba, can you provide them with COPR, and do you know when COPR will begin supporting EL8?

[xavierba]

COPR does have support for RHEL 8 Beta since a few days and I have already tried a build of the latest sympa beta. However, there is no EPEL 8 yet, so a huge number of packages are missing (see below).
A way around this could be to rebuild all missing packages in the sympa-beta COPR (EL8 only, as all of them are available in EL6, EL7 and Fedora), which is quite a lot of work given there are most probably other dependencies that would be needed first.

No matching package to install: 'js-respond >= 1.4.2'
No matching package to install: 'perl(CGI::Fast)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(Class::Singleton)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(Data::Password)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(DateTime)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(DateTime::Format::Mail)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(FCGI)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(File::Copy::Recursive)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(File::NFSLock)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(HTML::FormatText)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(HTML::StripScripts::Parser)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(HTML::TreeBuilder)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(IO::Scalar)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(MIME::Charset)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(MIME::EncWords)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(MIME::Entity)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(MIME::Head)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(MIME::Lite::HTML)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(MIME::Parser)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(MIME::Tools)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(Net::CIDR)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(Net::LDAP)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(SOAP::Lite)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(SOAP::Transport::HTTP)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(Template)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(Term::ProgressBar)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(Test::Compile)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(Test::Pod)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(Text::LineFold)'
No matching package to install: 'perl(Unicode::GCString)'

On a somewhat related matter, support for Mageia and OpenSuse was also added to COPR, so we might be able to provide packages for them too, but this is definitely lower on my list. At least Mageia is sharing a lot of packaging guidelines with Fedora, so this should be doable. No idea about OpenSuse.

Here are the builds for all 3 distros :
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/xavierb/sympa-beta/build/866718/