Re: [EPEL-devel] Ansible in EL7
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:58 AM, Todd Zullinger <tmz(a)pobox.com> wrote:
James Hogarth wrote:
> I was under the impression that as of 2.4.0 in EL7 we removed ansible
> from EPEL7 since Red Hat included it in their extras repo, and EPEL
> policy is not to conflict.
>
> I was surprised just now to see ansible 2.5.0 on a test centos system,
> when it wasn't in extras, and on a little bit of a search found:
>
> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-7ef392255b
>
> Of course this is a bit of an issue for CentOS/RHEL users that have
> need for the Red Hat ansible as they have been upgraded, and RH will
> need to epoch bump (or release 2.5.1 and we pull this from EPEL7 then)
> to ensure they get it from the right repo.
>
> With a branch retirement shouldn't this have been blocked in koji?
Red Hat announced today that Ansible was being deprecated
from the extras channel. Their advice is that those who
have "previously installed Ansible and its dependencies from
the Extras channel are advised to enable and update from the
Ansible Engine channel, or uninstall the packages as future
errata will not be provided from the Extras channel."
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1075
Given that, I believe it is reasonable to see ansible return
to EPEL. This was discussed in previous EPEL meetings a
bit, so I'm sure it was known to at least some of the folks
involved.
There probably should be an announcement sent to the epel announce
list then it gets to a wider audience so more people know this.