On 24 February 2016 at 17:50, Jason L Tibbitts III <ti...@math.uh.edu> wrote: >>>>>> "SJS" == Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> writes: >
Thank you for the input on this email. > SJS> Things done: > > epel-rpm-macros-6-4 is pushed to stable. Not sure if it's shown up at > the mirrors yet. It fixes the bad interaction with the SCL macros. > > -5 was going to add %autosetup but it seems that the RHEL people are > adding that directly. > > Not sure where I'm going after that. Will happily consider any requests > for backporting macros from Fedora to any EPEL release, or basically do > anything I can to eliminate Fedora-EPEL packaging differences. > > SJS> Things needing input: > > I'd still like to ask releng to add epel-rpm-macros-5 to the EPEL5 > buildroot. Some folks said they would test and I was asked to wait > until the next meeting for discussion. I will do another mass rebuild > and diff just to make sure nothing broken in the meantime. (For the > record, this package eliminates the requirements for Group:, BuildRoot:, > %clean, and the buildroot cleaning in %install, for all EPEL5 packages.) > I am +1 on doing this. > I will still be doing occasional mass-rebuilds of EPEL6 and EPEL5. They > have a way of finding unstable machines so there's value in it for me. > (I spread the builds out over 100+ desktops and some compute servers.) > Could probably add EPEL7 but I think it's in far better shape and > doesn't really need it right now. > > There's a discussion on epel-devel about adding dummy python2-* packages > to EPEL7 (and, maybe, EPEL6 if people want) so that we can eliminate > some cases where ifdefs are needed. I will be starting with > python2-setuptools because that seems to be the biggest pain point and > the RHEL maintainers haven't acted on adding the Provide:. Will > probably do other packages if people ask, but will drop the whole thing > if EPSCo tells me that I shouldn't be doing this. > > - J< -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
