About ELC 8/9 and rpmfusion buildsys

Hi there, With RHEL 8.6 published today and our repositories still using the outdated 8.5 CentOS LInux, I've had a look to use our RHEL subscription to access newer content. Unfortunately, this didn't went so good and while I haven't saw any issue to use a subscribed Fedora(34) builders to access RHEL repositories directly with mock, using some others tools that are mandated by koji (mergerepo_c among others) are total blocker without a mean to workaround the design issue anytime soon. (filled https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6295 if anyone interested in details). Because of this, the only solution is to use the alma linux repositories so far. This clone is the only to support ppc64le so we could benefit for this arch (which usage might be limited, but still relevant). I've made the switch and tested a scratch build that succeeded at https://koji.rpmfusion.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=543533 In a later step, we can add the alma "devel" repository if we miss -devel packages there. Thanks -- - Nicolas (kwizart)