On 26. 04. 19 3:08, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 3:20 PM Miro Hrončok
<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.
How is that more awkward? The installation would still be be `yum install
epel-release && yum install mock`.
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