[EPEL-devel] python34 packages for EPEL

[Orion Poplawski]

On 07/17/2015 11:47 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 16:41:13 -0600
> Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
> 
>> Sorry for the cross posting - let's follow up on the EPEL list
>>
>> We now have python34 in EPEL (yay - thanks Matej and others!).
>> Starting to look at packaging some modules.  We have
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bkabrda/EPEL7_Python3 as a
>> starting point which looks pretty good.  One wrinkle though is that
>> we have a bunch of python2 packages provided by RHEL that we'll want
>> to provide python3X versions for in EPEL, but not ship python2
>> versions.  So a question becomes, where do they get maintained?
>> Either:
>>
>> - epel7 branch of the python-blah package in Fedora?
>> - a new python3X-blah package?
>>
>> And if in an epel7 branch of an existing package, is it conceivable to
>> maintain a common spec across EPEL and Fedora?
> 
> I think we should do: 
> 
> - If the package is in rhel already as a python2 only package: 
> new review for python3-whatever in epel. This way we don't have to be
> carefull to sync versions to the rhel version and wont interfere with
> it. The package in epel should only build the python3 version of
> course. 
> 
> - If the package is not in rhel, just python-foo branched from fedora
>   and we can try and share specs to build things. 
> 
> kevin

If you look closely at my diff, you'll see that it doesn't ship a python2
version in epel.  But yeah, it may be cleaner to a separate package.  It will
be a lot of reviews, but hopefully pretty straightforward.



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