On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 1:28 PM Jason L Tibbitts III <ti...@math.uh.edu> wrote:
>
> >>>>> "OP" == Orion Poplawski <or...@nwra.com> writes:
>
> OP> - Can we make epel7-py36 branches, and somehow have
> OP> %python3_version, et. al. be 3.6 for those builds?
>
> I can't think of any way to do that without extra magic.  And if you
> require something in the spec, you might as well just hardcode it.
>
> OP> - Can we just make it easier for people to create python3X- packages
> OP> from existing python3- or python3(X-n)- packages?  And just drop the
> OP> whole macro thing altogether, since sed -i -e s/pyton34-/python36-/
> OP> *.spec does 90% of the work?
>
> Right now the process is:
>
> fedpkg request-repo --summary "Summary of foo" --exception python36-foo
> fedpkg request-branch --repo python36-foo epel7
> (wait)
> fedpkg clone python36-foo
> cd python36-foo
> fedpkg retire "This is an EPEL-only package"
> fedpkg switch-branch epel7
>
> And then copy in your spec and sources, edit and go.  There is no need
> for a package review.
>
> That's certainly a few steps but far from the worst process in the
> distro.  What could we do to make it easier?
>

Wait, we can do that? I thought we couldn't use the exception process for this?



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