On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 3:20 PM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 25. 04. 19 20:35, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > How much is going to be needed for "mock" to still work for older > > > operating systems? > > > > I'm confused. How is the change relevant for mock? I think I'm missing > > some > > pieces of the thought process here, could you please elaborate on that? > > > > > > In the past, changes where old versions of python were no longer supported > > in > > Fedora, then newer versions of mock/etc became dead in older OS's like > > RHEL-5's > > python24 and RHEL-6's python26. This would make compiling packages for > > certain > > versions of the OS impossible because the parent operating system didn't > > have a > > version of python it could use and you couldn't use newer source code on the > > older os. > > > > The question is moot because you are the wrong person to ask. The person to > > ask > > is the owner of mock and I expect the answer will be... I don't have time to > > support N versions of python but you have the source code.. so do it > > yourself. > > [Probably nicer than that.. but the general effect.] > > mock in EPEL 6 is already "dead" in that matter: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694159 > > mock in EPEL 7 can run on Python 3.6: > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mock/pull-request/6
Which could make sense, but makes mock more awkward to install. I recognize that it's not Fedora's task to be completely compatible with RHEL, but it's an important downstream community to keep in mind. It's already making some work I do with Samba to activate domain controller features a bit more awkward. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
