Hi, On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 20:56 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > Following my proposal in > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tibbs/EPELPythonStubPackages (only in EL6 as EL7.4 has finally added the python2-setuptools provide) It is one solution but it would of be better if EL folks add the providers into python-foo ... i.e. without RHEL collaboration things (aka speeding up Fedora development) will be more difficult. > which > met with favor from a number of folks, I went ahead and set up four > dummy packages: > > python2-setuptools (in EPEL6) > python2-sphinx (EPEL7) > python2-pytest (EPEL7) > python2-six (EPEL7) > > I'll do EPEL6 versions of the latter tomorrow. (I forgot that I can > only request one branch with the initial repo request. Oops. In my > defense, that's a really odd restriction.) > > These should, once actually pushed to stable, allow you to avoid > having > to add conditionals to depend on setuptools/sphinx/pytest/six in > EPEL. > If this works out for folks, I (or anyone else) can potentially add > similar dummy packages for every package which needs one. Anything > to > cut down on those conditionals. > > Please check my work, test and give karma as appropriate. They seem > to > work fine for me when I set up a local repo and do some mock builds, > but > I only have access to Centos so I guess anything is possible. > > - J< > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
