Long story, but we weren't able to get an update into the RHEl 8.0 - 12 week release (aka six weeks after RHEl 8.0 launched. Instead we have to wait for RHEl 8.1. This combined with the fact that Podman is moving very quickly has combined to create the perception of a very old version on RHEL/CentOS. Our next updates to RHEL will be in 8.1 (impending), 12 weeks after that, and again at 8.. In a nutshell, container-tools:rhel8 should be updated every 12 weeks from now on. 

CentOS Stream really plays no role in this. This is all set by the RHEL clock. In the meantime, one of my hacks has been to ride off of the work Lokesh does here:

https://cbs.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=6853

But, sadly, I don't think he has done anything for RHEL 8 yet. RHEL 8.1 with podman 1.4.4 should be out any day. Then we should have podman 1.6.X in RHEl 8.1 about 12 weeks later (pretty good - hopefully "suprisingly" ? :-)

Best Regards
Scott M

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 4:26 PM mh <mh+podman@scrit.ch> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 09:03:41AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>   i just upgraded a CentOS box to CentOS 8, and i can see that the
>> version of podman is (unsurprisingly) a bit dated:
>>
>>   $ podman --version
>>   podman version 1.0.2-dev
>>
>> compared to my fedora 30 system:
>>
>>   $ podman --version
>>   podman version 1.6.1
>>
>> is it feasible to try to download and build from source to get the
>> latest version on my CentOS system, or would that just be more trouble
>> than it's worth?
>
> I guess building from Makefile should work just fine..
>
> If you'd like to try building from fedora 31 rpm spec file,
> see: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/podman/blob/f31/f/podman.spec
> I try to keep it buildable on CentOS7 (haven't tried CentOS8 yet).
>
> CentOS Stream (once available) should hopefully address the availability issue.
>
> I'm not sure of ETA, but I'm thinking I'll enable epel8 COPR for this as a
> temporary solution in case CentOS Stream takes too long.
> (Let me get back on this..)

I am not able to build it on CentOS 8:

$ mock -r epel-8-x86_64 --rebuild
/home/mh/fedora/buildah/buildah-1.11.4-3.fc31.src.rpm

[...]
ERROR: Exception(/home/mh/fedora/buildah/buildah-1.11.4-3.fc31.src.rpm)
Config(epel-8-x86_64) 1 minutes 36 seconds
INFO: Results and/or logs in: /var/lib/mock/epel-8-x86_64/result
INFO: Cleaning up build root ('cleanup_on_failure=True')
Start: clean chroot
Finish: clean chroot
ERROR: Command failed:
 # /usr/bin/dnf builddep --installroot /var/lib/mock/epel-8-x86_64/root/
--releasever 8 --setopt=deltarpm=False --allowerasing
--disableplugin=local --disableplugin=spacewalk --disableplugin=local
--disableplugin=spacewalk
/var/lib/mock/epel-8-x86_64/root//builddir/build/SRPMS/buildah-1.11.4-3.el8.src.rpm
--setopt=tsflags=nocontexts
No matches found for the following disable plugin patterns: local, spacewalk
CentOS-8 - Base
                10 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00
CentOS-8 - Base
                15 MB/s | 7.9 MB     00:00
CentOS-8 - AppStream
                17 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00
CentOS-8 - AppStream
               8.4 MB/s | 6.3 MB     00:00
CentOS-8 - PowerTools
                12 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00
CentOS-8 - PowerTools
               599 kB/s | 1.8 MB     00:03
CentOS-8 - Extras
               3.6 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00
No matching package to install: 'btrfs-progs-devel'
No matching package to install: 'go-md2man'
No matching package to install: 'libseccomp-static'
Package make-1:4.2.1-9.el8.x86_64 is already installed.
Not all dependencies satisfied
Error: Some packages could not be found.


Anyone has a more recent version for EL8?

~mh
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