On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 1:26 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 12:14, Mátyás Selmeci <mselmeci.ml(a)gmail.com> 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.
The dnf in RHEL 7 is not compatible with mock. I tried it.
> 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.
> -Mat
The python34 also does not work with building packages in mock.
It's a lot of work doing this kind of backport. Something needs to be
done if RHEL 30 packages, which will be python3 by default, will be
backported to RHEL 7 or CentOS 7. INerting the "with_ython3" option
currently used to be "with_python2" and "with_python2" might do it,
I've tried things like this with the "py2pack" tool. But my patches to
it are being ignored upstream.