On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 March 2016 at 10:07, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Avram Lubkin <av...@rockhopper.net> wrote: >>> >>> So, a package I help maintain, python-dns is now provided by Red Hat. So I >>> thought, "OK, I'll still build the python34 package to help in that effort". >>> But the problem with that is, per the EPEL 7 in Python 3 Plan Draft (1), if >>> Red Hat provides the package, the SRPM can't use the same name. I can see >>> the merit there. The problem is that in Fedora, a SRPM name needs to match >>> the git repo name. So, yes, I could ask for a python3-dns package to be >>> setup, but that creates two problems. The first, keeping the EPEL-only repo >>> in sync with the main repo. The second, Differentiating between the python3 >>> package for Fedora which is in the python-dns git repo and the python3 >>> package for EPEL which, according to the guideline, would be in python3-dns. >>> >>> Ideally, I'd be able to maintain everything in the main git repo and use one >>> spec file cloned from master. That's not too difficult except the Fedora >>> build system won't build a package if it can't find the package (based on >>> the SRPM name) in the database. >>> >>> I don't see a clean solution which makes me very hesitant to preemptively >>> put out python34-dns for EPEL7. Which is part of the whole problem with >>> python34 on EL7, there are no packages. If you build it, they will come, >>> otherwise everyone stands around complaining it's not built. >>> >>> Am I missing something? >>> >>> Avram >>> >>> 1: >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bkabrda/EPEL7_Python3#Packaging_Parallel_python3X_stacks >>> >> >> Couldn't you just disable the python2 module build for EPEL7? That >> should eliminate the conflict. >> >> > > The python2 module is built in RHEL/CentOS and not in EPEL so he can't > disable it. The only way currently it can be 'built' for EL-7 is to > put it in the python3-dns name and do the review... >
So he can't keep the same spec, but simply disable the python2 module subpackage and build and only build the python3 one for EPEL7? That seems rather off. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
