On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 13:07, Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 13. 03. 19 15:30, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > Over the last 5 days, Troy Dawson, Jeroen van Meeuwen, Carl W George, > > and several helpers have gotten nearly all of the python34 packages > > moves over to python36 in EPEL-7. They are being included in 6 Bodhi > > pushes because of a limitation in Bodhi for the text size of packages > > in an include. > > > > The current day for these package groups to move into EPEL regular is > > April 2nd. We would like to have all tests we find in the next week or > > so also added so that the updates can occur in a large group without > > too much breakage. > > A problem was pointed out in > https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-f2d195dada#comment-914787 > > If you have 3rd party software using /usr/bin/python3 and you have python34 > installed, updating your system will remove that symlink and your software > breaks. > > However we cannot obsolete python34 form python36, because that breaks > software > that actually wants and uses /usr/bin/python3.4 and possibly make python34 > uninstallable (not sure). > > So arguably, the update should update both python34 and install python36, > keeping both Pythons available, the user/admin could than remove the one that > is > not needed. > > AFAIK The only thing that would make this happen is to require python36 from > python34. And that seems like a huge ugly workaround with unwanted side > affects. >
Here is a hair-brained idea. have them both require python3-versioned-command which puts in the alternatives logic and sets it to 1 of 3 options? 1. python34 2. python36 3. you didn't install a python silly > Any ideas? > > > -- > Miro Hrončok > -- > Phone: +420777974800 > IRC: mhroncok > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to epel-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/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to epel-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/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
