Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Art Age Software wrote: >> Why don't you maintain the 8.0 RPMs for RHEL and/or CentOS, so yourself and >> other 8.0 users can continue to use it while CentOSExtras/Plus moves towards >> 8.2 or sits at an old 8.0 release? > > This does not solve the issue. First, I don't have the resources to > create and host a public repository for this purpose. Second, I don't > have the expertise to do so. This is what I rely on the CentOS > repository to do for me. I think the latter point here is the crux of the issue. Sadly, the only solution here is the one you don't want to hear. >> Considering the amount of time invested in this discussion, someone could >> have just built the RPMs already and stuck them somewhere for download. > > A one-off build does not address the issue of continuing updates going forward. No, but running 5 lines of shell to build your own RPMs from the tar ball isn't exactly an excruciating effort. Or at least it shouldn't be. > Is it so surprising that I do not want to be a package maintainer? It is shocking that you are making this big a deal out of it, yes. > This is why I chose a managed distro like RHEL/CentOS in the first > place. Your expectations are too great for any distro. See the list of issues in the current RHEL5 that I ran into in the past month which have not yet been fixed, that I posted earlier in this thread. And other distros are at least as bad, often worse. At least with OSS you have a fighting chance to fix the problems yourself or hire somebody to do it for you. Gordan