On 2017-07-23 21:40, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> El mié, 19-07-2017 a las 08:14 -0500, Dustin C. Hatch escribió:
>> I have encountered a situation where a newer version of package I
>> used
>> to build in my instance of Koji is now provided by an external
>> repository. Until recently, everything has worked fine because the
>> package was only a runtime dependency, so as long as the external
>> repository was configured in Yum, the newer version would be
>> installed.
>> Now, though, that package, specifically the new version of it, is
>> needed
>> at build time, and I cannot figure out how to make this work.
>>
>> Since there is a build of the package tagged, via inheritance, into
>> my
>> build tag, Koji always prefers that version, even though it is older
>> than the version in the external repository. I have tried blocking
>> the
>> package, but this makes it unavailable entirely.
>>
>> Is there any way I can get around this problem. The only thing I can
>> come up with is to remove the inherited tag and copy the builds in it
>> directly into my new tag, but I am hoping there is a better or
>> simpler way.
>>
>> Thanks,
> 
> For EPEL when a package moves from EPEL to RHEL we untag all the builds
> in the epel tags, block the package in the epel tag unblock it in the
> -build tag so that the RHEL builds show up in the build root but we
> ensure that people do not accidently build and ship a new version in
> EPEL.
> 

Thanks Dennis. I will see if I can make something like that work in my
environment.

-- 
♫Dustin

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