On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 8:18 AM Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 1:45 AM Didier Fabert <didier.fabert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Yes the guidelines are clear for fedora. I miss tell that the package is >> present in fedora and epel repos and my question is more like this: >> >> Is it possible to mix bundled/system libs ? like using system libs (the >> must part in guidelines) for fedora packages and use bundled one for >> epel packages (because libs are too old) > > > That's a much more interesting question :) > > The first line of the main EPEL guidelines[1] says that you must follow the Fedora packaging guidelines and that the EPEL links are for the exceptions for EPEL. > > So if the library is not available in EPEL, then I would say the answer is yes, you can use the bundled library (even if you're not on Fedora). > > For the 2nd question, can you use them if the ones in EPEL/RHEL are too old, I'd like to see more feedback from others. Theoretically dependencies in EPEL could be updated, but it has to be done very carefully. For RHEL packages, I tried filling a bug about 6 years ago and as far as I know it's still open, with little to no feedback from RH. > If the library is in RHEL, file a bug asking for it to be updated, mark the library as bundled with a comment about why with a link to the BZ. If the library is in EPEL, talk to the maintainer about updating it. If it's not feasible, then do the same as you would for RHEL stuff. That's the way I've handled it so far. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to 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/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
