{"id":1234430,"date":"2025-02-24T10:56:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234430"},"modified":"2025-02-24T10:56:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:56:03","slug":"almalinux-considers-epel-10-rebuild-for-older-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234430","title":{"rendered":"[$] AlmaLinux considers EPEL 10 rebuild for older hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/almalinux.org\/\">AlmaLinux<\/a> project has <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/AlmaLinux\/ALESCo\/blob\/beed2d19470b07b5ed16dd952d1e45eda210f9af\/rfcs\/0001-build-fedora-epel-for-almalinux-and-almalinux-kitten-x86_64_v2.md\">published<\/a><br \/>\na request for comments (RFC) on rebuilding Fedora&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.fedoraproject.org\/en-US\/epel\/\">Extra Packages for<br \/>\nEnterprise Linux<\/a> (EPEL), which provides additional software for<br \/>\nRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its derivatives, to support older<br \/>\nx86_64 hardware that is not supported by EPEL\u00a010. While this may<br \/>\nsound simple on the surface, the proposed rebuild carries a few<br \/>\npotential risks that the AlmaLinux and EPEL contributors would like to<br \/>\navoid. The <a href=\"https:\/\/almalinux.org\/alesco\/\">AlmaLinux<br \/>\nEngineering Steering Committee<\/a> (ALESCo) is currently considering<br \/>\nfeedback and will vote on the RFC in March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AlmaLinux project has published a request for comments (RFC) on rebuilding Fedora&#8217;s Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL), which provides additional software for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its derivatives, to support older x86_64 hardware that is not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234430\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,116,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-lwn-net","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1234430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1234430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1234430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1234430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}