On 2/4/19 11:27 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 12:14, Mátyás Selmeci <mselmeci.ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On 1/31/19 1:05 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >>> On 1/30/19 1:39 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >>> >>>> Question: how plausibly can we sort of "test retire" yum? i.e. just >>>> somehow run a single compose process without it included, and see what >>>> breaks? >>> >>> Well, we could block yum in koji and remove it from all builders and see >>> what happens, but I think it will break all epel builds (unless we >>> switch epel to use dnf for buildroot population too) at least. >>> >>> kevin >> >> Can we put DNF in EPEL so people still targeting EL 7 can adapt their >> scripts? >> > > Dnf was added to RHEL-7 in the latest release as a tech preview and is > in CentOS extras. As such later versions can not be put in EPEL > without major packaging work. > Sounds good, I'll check it out from there. >> As a side note, this is a problem with Python 3, too; I can't get any >> Python 3 bindings for the yum/rpm libs on EL 7, which makes it hard to >> port software that uses them. >> > > There will be work on making a newer Python36 in EPEL in the next > couple of months. > I didn't know new packages would be added as part of that, I thought it was a rebuild / update of existing packages. Thanks, that would be useful. -Mat _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
