[elrepo] x86_64_v2 build consideration in the future?

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 7:22 PM d tbsky <tbskyd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Akemi Yagi <toracat at elrepo.org>
> > As you noted, AlmaLinux is planning to provide the x86_64_v2 rebuild
> > of EPEL10. Have you asked them if they can also build the ELRepo
> > packages? Are you specifically talking about kernel-ml/lt or just kmod
> > packages?
>
>   I am thinking about just kmod and other packages like
> drbd,nvidia-driver. AlmaLinux will re-enable some drivers, but not
> all. I don't know if AlmaLinux will  really rebuild epel-10. but the
> developer said x86-64-v2 Alma10 will be useless without EPEL. so maybe
> it is a good idea if they can rebuild ELRepo also.

We'll see if we can afford to have the resources to build and maintain
x86_64_v2 packages. In the meantime you can tell Alma (Johnathan
Write), "x86-64-v2 Alma10 will be useless without ELRepo". Joking
aside, it will be nice if they can rebuild our kmods etc for Alma
users.

Akemi