Am 17.03.23 um 11:17 schrieb Carl George:
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 9:43 AM Troy Dawson <tdaw...@redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 6:31 AM Troy Dawson <tdaw...@redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 7:16 PM Carl George <c...@redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 2:18 PM Troy Dawson <tdaw...@redhat.com> wrote
RHEL has been very good (lately) about their NVR's being higher than EPEL's.
If that is so, the EPEL packages don't take precedence over RHEL's.
They may not when you first check. The risk in leaving the branch
active is that a maintainer may bump the version and/or release and
start overriding the RHEL package at any given time. We don't
currently have a mechanism to freeze the distgit branch but leave the
package in the repo. Our current calculus is "if the package is in
RHEL, it needs to be promptly retired from EPEL". Leaving packages
longer means that someone needs to continually check that the
duplicating packages haven't started overriding their RHEL equivalent.
Before I dig through all my emails, let me ask if you have got any examples of
EPEL packagers updating a package after RHEL has released it?
(Within a reasonable time frame, which is to say a month after the release)
The most recent example I remember is python-sqlalchemy. It was
available in EPEL 9 at version 1.4.37. That same version was added to
CentOS Stream 9 in preparation to go into RHEL 9.1. The EPEL
maintainer didn't notice the retirement warning bug and continued to
update the package to newer versions in EPEL 9. It made it up to
version 1.4.44 before it was retired. That last update to 1.4.44 was
pushed to stable on 2022-11-23, eight days after the RHEL 9.1 release.
Anyone that had it installed previously won't get upgraded to the RHEL
9.1 package which is still at version 1.4.37. Thankfully the RHEL
maintainer agreed to rebase it in RHEL 9.2 to eventually resolve the
upgrade path.
IMO, would Epoch: in the RHEL package not help here?
--
Leon
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