On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 3:20 PM Miro HronĨok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 25. 04. 19 20:35, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > How much is going to be needed for "mock" to still work for
older
> > operating systems?
>
> I'm confused. How is the change relevant for mock? I think I'm missing
some
> pieces of the thought process here, could you please elaborate on that?
>
>
> In the past, changes where old versions of python were no longer supported in
> Fedora, then newer versions of mock/etc became dead in older OS's like
RHEL-5's
> python24 and RHEL-6's python26. This would make compiling packages for certain
> versions of the OS impossible because the parent operating system didn't have a
> version of python it could use and you couldn't use newer source code on the
> older os.
>
> The question is moot because you are the wrong person to ask. The person to ask
> is the owner of mock and I expect the answer will be... I don't have time to
> support N versions of python but you have the source code.. so do it yourself.
> [Probably nicer than that.. but the general effect.]
mock in EPEL 6 is already "dead" in that matter:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694159
mock in EPEL 7 can run on Python 3.6:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mock/pull-request/6
Which could make sense, but makes mock more awkward to install. I
recognize that it's not Fedora's task to be completely compatible with
RHEL, but it's an important downstream community to keep in mind. It's
already making some work I do with Samba to activate domain controller
features a bit more awkward.