Description of problem: Please branch 'pv' for EPEL8. It was in EPEL7 Current release is 1.6.6 per https://release-monitoring.org/project/3736/
FEDORA-EPEL-2019-2c611176f5 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 8. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-2c611176f5
pv-1.6.6-7.el8 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-2c611176f5
pv-1.6.6-7.el8 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.