Re: [EPEL] rpmconf question for EPEL7 on Amazon Linux 2
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 2:18 PM Christopher <ctubbsii(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Hi,
I know Fedora doesn't directly support Amazon Linux, but I was
wondering if the package maintainer for rpmconf on EPEL was aware that
the latest version doesn't work on Amazon Linux 2, which recently
updated to python-3.7, whereas rpmconf has a direct dependency on
python(abi)=3.6. If it's possible to use '>=3.6' instead, and the
package maintainer is willing to update it so it works with python 3.7
on Amazon Linux 2, that would be great for my use case.
You need to talk to Amazon. They have their own EPEL repository,
inconsistently forked from EPEL and enabled with the
"amazon-linux-extras" command, along with a variety of other
not-really-yum-repo-managed tools like mock and ansible. It's
problematic.. And don't let that incomplete EPEL channel get mixed
with the official EPEL repository in your configurations.
The time spent hunting for workarounds might be better spent migrating
to RHEL or CentOS, which is likely to be more compatible with Fedora
packages backported through EPEL. The decision to leapfrog to python
3.7 was problematic, since it also puts them ahead of RHEL 8 and
CentOS 8's releases of python 3.6 and complicates EPEL support
profoundly.