EPEL-8 branch requested.

Branch is ready, the exim package was pushed there, but the build is waiting for libgsasl (bug 1741538).

Heads up that even after the libgsasl dependency is solved, the EL8 branch doesn't build cleanly anyway, at least with mock on my system:

Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/exim-4.92.3-1.el8.x86_64
error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
   /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim
    Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
   /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim


due to this in the spec meaning that the init file still gets installed:

%if 0%{?fedora} < 23
mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_initrddir}
install %SOURCE2 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_initrddir}/exim
%endif

If anyone is interested in playing around, there is a highly-untested build of exim and the missing deps (libgsasl, libntlm) at my personal repo here:

http://rpms.timj.co.uk/enterprise/8/

These are clean rebuilds of the latest Fedora branches of the respective packages, with the exception of fixing the minor Exim packaging error described in comment #3. I am not going to maintain the packages in my repo; I've just built them for me to test until the EPEL build is fixed, at which point they will be removed from my repo.

In order to get the exim package to build, due to bug #1677583, I had to set "best=0" in /etc/mock/templates/centos-8.tpl

I dropped the sysvinit artifacts. It's still waiting for the libgsasl.

Any update or ETA regarding this issue?

(In reply to Peter Klimczak from comment #6)
> Any update or ETA regarding this issue?

No idea, it's still blocked by libgsasl (bug 1741538). I am not willing to maintain (or co-maintain) libgsasl, so I cannot help with libgsasl.

*** Bug 1767650 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I think besides libgsasl there are other issues to solve. (I have a COPR which has a libgsasl build for EPEL8 - https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/fschwarz/exim-epel8/ )

mock fails to build exim in EPEL8 for me due to some modulariy issue:

    CentOS-8 - Base                                                                                                                                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
    CentOS-8 - AppStream                                                                                                                                           30 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
    CentOS-8 - PowerTools                                                                                                                                          43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
    CentOS-8 - Extras                                                                                                                                              14 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
    Package epel-rpm-macros-8-5.noarch is already installed.
    Package gcc-8.2.1-3.5.el8.x86_64 is already installed.
    Package gnupg2-2.2.9-1.el8.x86_64 is already installed.
    Package systemd-239-13.el8_0.5.x86_64 is already installed.
    Error: 
     Problem: cannot install the best candidate for the job
      - package perl-generators-1.10-7.module_el8.0.0+50+c3b345cd.noarch is excluded
    (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)
    Finish: build setup for exim-4.92.3-3.el8.src.rpm

I did not really follow the huge modularity flame war on fedora-devel but I think "non-modular"/"ursine" packages can not reuse modular packages until "Ursa Major"/"Ursa Prime" is enabled. :-(

Ah, looks like this is a known issue (bug 1756681). The quick fix solution for mock is to use "best=0" in /etc/mock/templates/centos-8.tpl .

I will probably temporally build it without gsasl support to move this forward.

FEDORA-EPEL-2019-3d3b2e64a8 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 8. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-3d3b2e64a8

exim-4.92.3-3.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-2019-3d3b2e64a8

exim-4.92.3-3.el8 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.