Re: Fast-moving packages in EPEL

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 12.10.20 12:09, Petr Pisar wrote:
> RHEL releases a minor version every six months. And as I remember, EPEL8
> allows breaking upgrades at each new RHEL release. Thus technically, it's
> possible to rebase the package every year without getting into conflict with
> packaging guidelines. On the other hand, I'm not sure whether the users know
> it and expect it.

OK, that might work - somehow I remembered the minor versions being
released more rarely.

> You could package each new incompatible version into a separate module stream
> and keep maintaining only the latest one. This way the users could switch
> to the newer stream whenever they feel comfortable. If they slip switching
> to the latest stream, then can migrate any later by hopping through all the
> intermediary streams up to the latest one. That could be even automated by
> a script.

At As Nick Howitt pointed out, NC can be modified to skip the version
check, so maybe the hopping isn't even necessary. Still, if the old
streams remain available ... intriguing possibilities.
> 
> There is a downside of the modules: There is no mechanism for tracking the
> latest stream automatically. DNF team is willing to implement the mechanism,
> but so far it's only a conception. It's also dubious whether the new mechanism
> would be ported back to RHEL 8. So far users have to switch the streams
> manually.

I was thinking of offering a nextcloud-stable or -latest stream that
simply follows upstream release channel (i.e. N+1.0 replaces N.x, even
if N is still supported and receiving updates) in addition
tonextcloud-<version>. Or have a normal (ursine?) package for that. That
way users can choose between an automatically updating or version-stable
Nextcloud, and whatever they choose, they know what they're in for.

Christopher
_______________________________________________
epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx




[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora News]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [SSH]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Centos]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora QA]     [Fedora Triage]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Tux]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Apps]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Tools]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Maemo Users]     [Asterisk PBX]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Fedora Universal Network Connector]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux