[EPEL-devel] Re: [SPF:fail] A coordinated plan for ansible-collection updates in EPEL?

2023-01-31 Thread Paul Howarth
On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 21:13:11 -0700 Orion Poplawski wrote: > So, I'm wondering if we should have some kind of (at least > semi-)coordinated plan for updating ansible collections in EPEL? > > My initial thought is we would sort of piggy back on to what the > "ansible" community collection

[EPEL-devel] Re: EPEL7 packages still in epel-testing

2022-04-21 Thread Paul Howarth
On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 14:48:47 -0700 Troy Dawson wrote: > gnucash-2.6.21-1.el72018-04-15 (1466) Should be safe to unpush this one because gnucash-2.6.21-4.el7 should be in epel7 stable for 2 years: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-aa8e8965dc Paul.

[EPEL-devel] Re: The incredibly shrinking RHEL

2022-01-17 Thread Paul Howarth
On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 07:02:23 -0500 Josh Boyer wrote: > 2) Moving content to CRB in RHEL is not a silver bullet solution in > many scenarios. If it's strictly for build dependencies, CRB works > well. If an EPEL package has a runtime requires on CRB content, that > is less desirable. RHEL

[EPEL-devel] Re: Continuing playground discussion

2020-09-04 Thread Paul Howarth
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 07:18:31 -0700 Troy Dawson wrote: > Step 4 - Untag all the things that are "older" in playground > -- currently that is a releng process. There is no way for a > maintainer to retire their package from playground. > -- This needs to happen some time (3 months?) after step 2 is

[EPEL-devel] Re: Modules again

2020-07-06 Thread Paul Howarth
On Tue, 19 May 2020 19:00:25 +0100 Paul Howarth wrote: > On Tue, 19 May 2020 09:21:46 -0700 > Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:48:04AM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen > > wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 11:05, Paul Howarth > > > wrot

[EPEL-devel] Re: Modules again

2020-05-20 Thread Paul Howarth
On Wed, 20 May 2020 08:10:42 +0200 Petr Pisar wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 04:05:02PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > On Tue, 19 May 2020 09:07:30 -0400 > > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 06:05, Paul Howarth > > > wrote

[EPEL-devel] Re: Modules again

2020-05-19 Thread Paul Howarth
On Tue, 19 May 2020 09:21:46 -0700 Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:48:04AM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 11:05, Paul Howarth > > wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 May 2020 09:07:30 -0400 > > > Stephen John Smoogen wrot

[EPEL-devel] Re: Modules again

2020-05-19 Thread Paul Howarth
On Tue, 19 May 2020 09:07:30 -0400 Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 06:05, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 May 2020 22:29:54 -0600 > > Orion Poplawski wrote: > > > > > On 5/17/20 6:34 AM, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > &

[EPEL-devel] Re: Modules again

2020-05-19 Thread Paul Howarth
On Mon, 18 May 2020 22:29:54 -0600 Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 5/17/20 6:34 AM, Paul Howarth wrote: > > I'm trying to do a local build of gtkwave for EPEL-8. > > > > A koji scratch build somehow works: > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=44609837

[EPEL-devel] Modules again

2020-05-17 Thread Paul Howarth
I'm trying to do a local build of gtkwave for EPEL-8. A koji scratch build somehow works: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=44609837 But a local build does not: $ mock -r epel-8-x86_64 gtkwave-3.3.104-2.fc31.src.rpm ... Error: Problem: conflicting requests - package

[EPEL-devel] Re: Handling packages retired in epel but not yet available in CentOS?

2020-05-14 Thread Paul Howarth
On Thu, 14 May 2020 12:31:40 -0700 Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > We're working on validating CentOS 8 for some desktop use cases at > work, and noticed that after working fine on a machine that's > installed several months ago, it's now failing on a freshly-installed > machine. > > Turns out

[EPEL-devel] Re: Input Requested: revising policy for stalled EPEL requests

2020-04-11 Thread Paul Howarth
On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 15:17:25 -0700 Troy Dawson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 3:21 PM Troy Dawson wrote: > > > > EPEL Issue #101 [1] has pointed out that our current policy for > > stalled EPEL requests is fairly in-efficient and can cause some long > > delays. > > > > What do people think the

[EPEL-devel] Re: epel8 build failing

2019-11-22 Thread Paul Howarth
On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:56:46 -0700 Orion Poplawski wrote: > DEBUG util.py:596: No available modular metadata for modular package > 'python2-rpm-macros-3-38.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.noarch', it > cannot be installed on the system > DEBUG util.py:596: Error: No available modular metadata

[EPEL-devel] Re: Recent epel 8 branchs - no tag of package in epel

2019-11-14 Thread Paul Howarth
On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:08:32 +0100 Steve Traylen wrote: > Hi, > > > Last couple of days the epel8 branch requests have been processed > okay. Thanks > > However when you then try and build something it results in > > BuildError: package X not in list for tag epel8-playground-pending > > >

[EPEL-devel] Re: Recent epel 8 branchs - no tag of package in epel

2019-11-14 Thread Paul Howarth
On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:08:32 +0100 Steve Traylen wrote: > Last couple of days the epel8 branch requests have been processed > okay. Thanks > > However when you then try and build something it results in > > BuildError: package X not in list for tag epel8-playground-pending > > > Example: > >

[EPEL-devel] Re: please help with epel8 branches

2019-09-11 Thread Paul Howarth
On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 20:59:33 -0600 Orion Poplawski wrote: > The epel8 branches were not properly created for hypre and > superlu_dist. They were apparently made in the PDC, but they don't > exist in pagure. What to do now? Thanks. This is not the first time this has happened. Fortunately, you

[EPEL-devel] Code Ready Builder

2019-08-23 Thread Paul Howarth
The EL-8 non-default repo Code Ready Builder is primarily targeted at developers, but it looks to me like it's going to be a required repo for a lot of EPEL-8 users, particularly those using interpreted languages. As an example, today I built perl-Expect for EPEL-8

[EPEL-devel] Re: Announcing EPEL-8.0 Release

2019-08-22 Thread Paul Howarth
Hi, On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 10:50:24 -0400 Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > ## Known Issues: > 1. EPEL-8.0 does not come with modules. Packages built for perl, > python and other modules are only built against “default” modules. For > example installing a perl library from EPEL will work with the >

[EPEL-devel] Re: EPEL 8 Beta/Alpha?

2018-11-28 Thread Paul Howarth
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 07:01:04 -0600 Richard Shaw wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 5:29 AM Paul Howarth > wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:53:58 +0530 > > > > I seem to remember that for EL-7 we generally just branched the f19 > > packages for epel7,

[EPEL-devel] Re: Circular build dependency with perl-namespace-autoclean and perl-MooseX-Role-WithOverloading

2017-09-29 Thread Paul Howarth
On 2017-09-29 03:45, Digimer wrote: Hi all, Continuing down by build dependency hole, I ran into another circular dependency. I checked in perl-namespace-autoclean.spec for the bootstrap option, but it didn't seem to exist. I added it, and it allowed me to build -> install

[EPEL-devel] Re: Trouble rebuilding perl-Moose

2017-09-28 Thread Paul Howarth
On 2017-09-28 08:42, Digimer wrote: Hi all, This is my first post, apologies if I am off-topic; I'm trying to build perl-Moose, which depends on perl-Data-Visitor, but perl-Data-Visitor depends on perl-Moose; [digimer@el7-builder-test1 SPECS]$ rpmbuild -ba perl-Moose.spec error:

[EPEL-devel] Re: nodejs broken

2017-08-24 Thread Paul Howarth
On 2017-08-23 18:27, Stephen Gallagher wrote: I think the only sane approach here is going to be to just drop all of the 7.3-specific stuff and just tell people that they're unfortunately out of luck on CentOS until 7.4 is out for that platform. Not entirely out of luck. CentOS 7 users could

[EPEL-devel] Re: Current state of dual repository packages.

2017-08-14 Thread Paul Howarth
On 2017-08-11 19:00, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I have opened 2 tickets in RELENG to have these packages removed/blocked for EPEL. Packages which are newer in EPEL than RHEL-7.4 https://pagure.io/releng/issue/6948 Packages which are older in EPEL than RHEL-7.4 but exist in aarch64, x86_64,

[EPEL-devel] Intent to retire perl-MetaCPAN-API from EPEL (7)

2017-06-21 Thread Paul Howarth
The package perl-MetaCPAN-API, which has been deprecated upstream for some time now, was recently updated by upstream to support the new v1 API provided by MetaCPAN. The original v0 API, the only one supported by the existing EPEL perl-MetaCPAN-API package, no longer works with metacpan.org,

[EPEL-devel] Re: Requirements for SRPM names

2016-09-14 Thread Paul Howarth
On 14/09/16 03:51, Dennis Gilmore wrote: So, with the limited arch packages this means that _ALL_ things building in koji will use the epel package. The reason for the prepended 0 is so that users don't install the epel package and instead get the newer rhel version. The limited arch guideline

[EPEL-devel] Re: Necessity of some old RPM constructs in EL5

2016-01-22 Thread Paul Howarth
On 22/01/16 03:11, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: I'm now working on some magic macros for EPEL5. Currently (on my machine, at least) you can use %license and don't need BuildRoot:. I'm curious about some other boilerplate constructs, though. %defattr in %files: I've been told that even EPEL5

[EPEL-devel] Re: EPEL5 mass rebuild (2016-01-20, 179 failures)

2016-01-21 Thread Paul Howarth
On 21/01/16 00:49, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: ... Failures in %check: 12 ccache-2.4-21.el5.src.rpm (adev) heimdal-1.6.0-0.9.20140621gita5adc06.el5.src.rpm (ktdreyer) libresample-0.1.3-7.el5.src.rpm (jcollie) perl-Calendar-Simple-1.17-2.el5.src.rpm (laxathom)

Re: [EPEL-devel] Koji build errors (all releases - el5/6/7)

2015-05-15 Thread Paul Howarth
On 15/05/15 10:10, Simone Caronni wrote: This seems the real issue (clicking under show result): BuildError: mismatch when analyzing bacula-logwatch-7.0.5-7.fc21.noarch.rpm, rpmdiff output was: error: cannot open Packages index using db5 - Permission denied (13) error: cannot open Packages

Re: [EPEL-devel] Package Update

2015-04-15 Thread Paul Howarth
On 13/04/15 09:20, A.H.M Tasbir Farid wrote: Dear All I have configured EPEL local repository in my network. Other clients get packages from central repo. I need a package named monit with version 5.2 to connect m/monit server. EPEL repo have the older version 5.1. I can manually download the

Re: [EPEL-devel] EPEL packages, CentOS packages

2015-03-31 Thread Paul Howarth
On 31/03/15 12:17, Anssi Johansson wrote: As of now, the following packages are in EPEL, but the same package also exists in CentOS. --- CentOS5 vs EPEL5 blktrace c-ares c-ares-devel cmake ctdb ctdb-devel dstat ebtables fribidi fribidi-devel iotop ldb-tools libassuan-devel libldb libldb-devel

Re: [EPEL-devel] Fwd: [Fedora-packaging] %license for EPEL6

2015-03-17 Thread Paul Howarth
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:34:10 -0600 Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: This was on the packaging list but effects EPEL. Any suggestions? -- Forwarded message -- From: Thomas Moschny thomas.mosc...@gmail.com Date: 17 March 2015 at 10:59 Subject: [Fedora-packaging]

Re: [EPEL-devel] Is this a bug? proftpd doesn't include mod_sftp

2015-03-16 Thread Paul Howarth
On 15/03/15 16:25, David White wrote: The proftpd package in the EPEL CentOS 7 repo doesn't seem to include mod_sft. |[root@blah /]#! proftpd - l Compiled-in modules: mod_core.c mod_xfer.c mod_rlimit.c mod_auth_unix.c mod_auth_file.c mod_auth.c mod_ls.c mod_log.c

Re: [EPEL-devel] perl-Net-CIDR missing from Centos 7 EPEL; unable to install munin-node

2014-11-17 Thread Paul Howarth
On 17/11/14 15:44, Axel S wrote: Hi all, It seems like perl-Net-CIDR is not availabe in the Centos 7 EPEL? Because of this I am not able to install munin-node, whick depends on perl-Net-CIDR. (also tried with --skip-broken). I don't know of perl-Net-CIDR has been available before, but I have

Re: EPEL 5 orphaned packages status

2014-08-19 Thread Paul Howarth
On 19/08/14 07:06, Till Maas wrote: Hi, there are a lot of orphaned packages in EPEL 5, that should IMHO either be properly maintained or retired, here is a rough overview: ... I took perl-DateTime-Format-Mail Paul. ___ epel-devel mailing list

Re: EPEL 7 branch requests

2014-03-11 Thread Paul Howarth
On 11/03/14 14:59, Dave Johansen wrote: On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com mailto:ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:10:10 +0100 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski domi...@greysector.net mailto:domi...@greysector.net wrote: Hello everyone,