[elrepo] BTRFS for RHEL 8

[Joseph Christopher Sible]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: elrepo-bounces at lists.elrepo.org <elrepo-bounces at lists.elrepo.org> On
> Behalf Of Akemi Yagi
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:01 PM
> To: EL Repo General Mailing List <elrepo at lists.elrepo.org>
> Subject: Re: [elrepo] BTRFS for RHEL 8
> 
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 10:15 AM Joseph Christopher Sible <jcsible at cert.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 15:01 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 2:39 PM Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 2:36 PM Joseph Christopher Sible
> > > > <jcsible at cert.org> wrote:
> > > > > I'm okay with using kernel-ml. However, doesn't that only remove
> > > > > the need for kmod-btrfs? Don't I still need btrfs-progs to
> > > > > practically use the filesystem?
> > > > >
> > > > > Joseph C. Sible
> > > >
> > > > Yes. I can put what was in the testing repo back in there so you
> > > > can give it a try.
> > > >
> > > > Akemi
> > >
> > > The following packages have been released to the testing repo and
> > > will be syncing to our mirrors:
> > >
> > > btrfs-progs-4.20.2-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> > > btrfs-progs-devel-4.20.2-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> > > libbtrfs-4.20.2-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> > > libbtrfsutil-4.20.2-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> > > zstd-1.3.4-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> > > libzstd-1.3.4-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> > > libzstd-devel-1.3.4-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> > >
> > > Akemi
> >
> > I've now been using these for several weeks, and no issues are
> > apparent. Are they ready to be promoted out of testing?
> >
> > Joseph C. Sible
> 
> Based on your positive results, we could move them to the main repository.
> Some of them, as Trevor pointed out, are in EPEL and they have a newer
> version. We may need to update them. Or let EPEL maintain those packages.
> 
> Akemi


So I've been using whatever btrfs-progs was last in testing for two years or so, with no problems still. I just went to install this on a new box, though, and noticed that not only is btrfs-progs not in main still, but that now it's gone from testing again too. Can this be reinstated again?

Thanks,

Joseph C. Sible