> Date: Tuesday, December 04, 2018 17:08:52 +0000
> From: Tony Molloy <tony.molloy@xxxxx>
>
> On Mon, 2018-12-03 at 07:44 -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 06:00, isdtor <isdtor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > OT for this list, but maybe I can get some pointers - how hard is
>> > it to get some packages updated in EPEL? The project web site
>> > sends you from link to link, and the ML web interface is
>> > horrible. No interest here to become a package maintainer or
>> > regular contributor.
>> >
>>
>> If you have interest in being a package maintainer or regular
>> contributor it can be very hard to get packages updated. EPEL is
>> trying to mainly deal with people who want long term supported
>> package
>> sets with limited manpower to do so.
>>
>> > I have taken it upon myself to rebuild MATE from Fedora 29,
>> > seeing that the current EPEL-7 packages are four revisions
>> > behind. Also updated a few packages to their latest upstream
>> > version.
>>
>> If you are needing the latest upstream versions... I would say you
>> are
>> probably going to need to maintain these things yourself. As much
>> as you want/need the latest MATE or some other item there are other
>> people who don't and EPEL package maintainers can't satisfy both
>> demands.
>>
>> >
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>
> The problem is that the current version of Mate in the EPEL repos
> prevents updating from 7.5 to 7.6. There is a dependency problem
> with libgtop.
>
> For example trying to update marco gives you.
>
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package marco.x86_64 0:1.16.1-3.el7 will be installed
> --> Processing Dependency: libgtop-2.0.so.10()(64bit) for package:
> marco-1.16.1-3.el7.x86_64
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Package: marco-1.16.1-3.el7.x86_64 (epel)
> Requires: libgtop-2.0.so.10()(64bit)
> You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>
> The same dependency holds for several mate packages.
>
> So either hold back on the update until mate is updated or build it
> yourself are the choices..
>
> Regards,
>
> Tony.
The epel-testing repo resolves these dependencies, so include it when
updating and things should be ok -- I just updated a mate desktop
system with no issues (it pulled about half a dozen items from
-testing).
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