project ePel (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux), which is maintained by the repository of additional packages for Rhel and CentOS, Subject About creating a repository option for distributions Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9-Beta and Centos Stream 9. Binary builds form for architectures x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le and s390x.
At this phase of development repository Published Only a few additional packages supported by the Fedora community Linux. All proposed packages are related to the implementation of the IPTables toolor, the support of which is stopped in Rhel 9 in favor of NFTables.
It is important to note that earlier the EPEL repository was formed after the next significant release of RHEL, but now, thanks to the appearance of Centos Stream 9, the EPEL 9 repository launched approximately 5 months before the release of RHEL 9, this explains the small number of packages proposed – as far as increasing User requests and Activity Mightteiners The number of packages will gradually expand.
To the release of Rhel 9, which is expected in May, EPEL 9 will be formed on the basis of Centos Stream 9, after which it will be transferred to the assembly for Rhel 9. Separately on the basis of CentOS Stream 8 is formed by the repository Epel next , and EPEL 8 continues to be assembled for RHEL 8 and can be used in distributions that continued the development of classical CentOS 8.x.