On 9 May 2016 at 08:29, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9 May 2016 at 02:38, Igor Gnatenko <ignate...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Sorry for delay for writing this. We wanted to provide latest DNF >> stack in EPEL7 which means we also need newer components like libsolv, >> hawkey, librepo, etc. >> >> Some of those are in RHEL7.2 and unfortunately it's not that easy to >> get them updated: >> - librepo >> - libsolv >> - hawkey >> >> Probably some more, didn't remember. There are no ABI breakage with >> those updates and actually only PackageKit (via libhif) depends on it. >> >> So I would like to ask EPSCo to provide exception to override those >> packages in EPEL7. >> > > 1. We have never given an exception before that I know of. [I think > openstack asked for an exception but there was too much customer > problems with it to make it possible. ] > 2. You could have broken hundreds of thousands of computers (mainly > because they have yum install in their cron jobs it looks like). > Pushing and then asking for permission is not acceptable. It usually > leads to the package set being removed and blacklisted from EPEL. > 3. I understand the importance of this package set, and will try to > work with you on this, but I am going to need a day to not be pissed. > >
OK feeling a lot less peeved. In any case, we haven't done over-rides in the past because we have a 'no replacing Red Hat Enterprise Linux' as a core tenant of the EPEL repository. The ways that we do this is have these packages be parallel install-able packages versus replacement packages. -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
