From ELN to EPEL 10: tracking and bringing up packages with poi-tracker and ebranch

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Slides uploaded for my @CentOS #CentOSConnect #presentation - From #FedoraELN to #FedoraEPEL 10: tracking and bringing up packages with poi-tracker and ebranch!

https://cfp.fedoraproject.org/centos-connect-2025/talk/FDCUAP/

Thank you for attending and all the feedback, and to @jonathanspw for graciously going above and beyond taking photos

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From ELN to EPEL 10: tracking and bringing up packages with poi-tracker and ebranch CentOS Connect

Many, if not most, deployments of CentOS Stream and its downstreams (RHEL and derivatives) require packages from the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repositories, which requires bootstrapping for every major EL release. This is a follow-up to previous CentOS Connect talks, discussing how I am using poi-tracker to track packages, export them to ELN Extras workloads, and then use ebranch to branch and build these packages and their dependencies in EPEL 10. I plan to release the first stable versions of poi-tracker and ebranch at Connect, after stress-testing ebranch across two EL releases (9 and 10).