One year on: Experiences using ebranch to bring over Fedora packages to EPEL
Channel: CentOS
Date: 16/02/2023

Michel Salim presents at CentOS Connect at FOSDEM 2023.

At this event last year, I described a WIP tool called ebranch (https://pagure.io/epel/ebranch) that is meant to simplify the workflow of branching a specific package for an EPEL release, together with all the missing dependencies needed to build it.

One year on, this tool has been used for bringing over various sets of new packages to EPEL, in different programming language stacks (from Python to Perl to Rust); this talk discusses the current state of the tool, how features are added to address specific needs, the experiences gained in writing and using the tool, and the pros and cons of how different language stacks are managed in Fedora when it comes to branching to EPEL.