Hey Pádraig, (cc-ed some likely suspects who might be interested in our plight :) On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 22:28 +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote: > I've been looking recently at getting the diablo release of openstack > running on RHEL6.2 beta with support from EPEL. > The current status is that I have nova and glance services running > and passing very basic tests. Awesome! > I'm using 2 packages not yet in EPEL though. > > python-webob: 0.9.6 in RHEL6.2, 1.0.8 in F1[56] > python-sqlalchemy: 0.5.5 in RHEL6.2, 0.6.8 in F15 > > The RHEL6.2 versions of these packages are too old > to support openstack. Now it's not practical to update those > for RHEL6.2 and I've requested consideration for RHEL6.3. > In the meantime I think it's probably best to have parallel > installable versions of those packages in EPEL, given EPEL's > mandate of not updating RHEL packages: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies > So we might have a python-webob10 package in EPEL, > and adjust the openstack packages accordingly. > There is precedent for this in packages like python-sphinx10 Right, the approach python-sphinx10 is using is documented here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python_Eggs#Multiple_Versions Also, I double checked with some #epel folks on the conflicts policy. See the discussion below. So, yeah - this sounds like our own real option Cheers, Mark. <markmc> hey; anyone here with time to discuss EPEL's policy on packages with conflict with RHEL? <rdieter> markmc: the policy is fairly clear and simple.... don't. what did you wish to discuss? <markmc> rdieter: heh :) <markmc> the situation is this <markmc> we're adding OpenStack to EPEL6 <markmc> it went into F-16 recently <markmc> it requires a newer version of python-webob than is in RHEL6 <markmc> now, I had assumed we could add e.g. python-webob10 with a Conflicts: python-webob <markmc> sort of the opposite of a compat package <markmc> but that's verboten? <rdieter> sounds like you have 2 options: 1. file RFE asking RHEL to update it <markmc> 1. is done, will be in RHEL 6.3 <markmc> (hopefully) <markmc> (in 6+ months, I guess) <wolfy> markmc: conflict with core is verboten <rdieter> 2. create something the aforementioned python-web10 ,but it must be parallel-installable without conflict <markmc> okay, so it would install into e.g. site-packages/webob10 or something ? <markmc> i.e. no file or package level conflicts ? <wolfy> markmc: right <rdieter> markmc: something like that, yes <markmc> ok, at least we have an option :) <markmc> thanks guys _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud