On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, 01:26 Todd Zullinger, <t...@pobox.com> wrote: > James Hogarth wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, 00:59 Todd Zullinger, <t...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> Red Hat announced today that Ansible was being deprecated > >> from the extras channel. Their advice is that those who > >> have "previously installed Ansible and its dependencies from > >> the Extras channel are advised to enable and update from the > >> Ansible Engine channel, or uninstall the packages as future > >> errata will not be provided from the Extras channel." > >> > >> https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1075 > >> > >> Given that, I believe it is reasonable to see ansible return > >> to EPEL. This was discussed in previous EPEL meetings a > >> bit, so I'm sure it was known to at least some of the folks > >> involved. > > > > Cheers for the info. > > > > It wasn't mentioned on the devel list, I didn't see it in the 7.5 release > > notes and it was still in extras when I checked a short while ago. > > > > In that case yes I agree it makes total sense to return to epel7 > > > > I wonder why they dropped it when the whole point of them bringing it in > to > > begin with was for Satellite and Tower to have it in the standard RHEL > > repos. > > > > Seems so pointless to have only had one release there! > > Indeed, it was a bit strange. Perhaps someone with more > insight into the rationale can comment. I have no > particular knowledge of things, but maybe keeping a fast > moving project like ansible in even the RHEL extras channel > was a problem. > > Maybe the plan with the move to the "Ansible Engine" channel > is to work closer with subscribers on migrating from version > to version. And non-subscribers can just follow it in EPEL. > > I'd be interested in hearing more about the change, though I > suspect those who know more either aren't on these lists or > can't say more than Red Hat's advisory has already. > > At this point, no offense to Nirik and the maintenance he does on the package, I'm actually tempted to just grab it from upstream directly at https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/rpm/
At least then I can get consistency with selection of stable, preview or nightly ... <devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org> >
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