[EPEL-devel] Re: Announcing EPEL-8.0 Release
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 03:54, Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org> wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 10:50:24 -0400
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> ## Known Issues:
> 1. EPEL-8.0 does not come with modules. Packages built for perl,
> python and other modules are only built against “default” modules. For
> example installing a perl library from EPEL will work with the
> perl-5.26 but not with the perl-5.24 module.
Will this present a problem going forward when modules are available in
EPEL-8 and it's possible to build for both perl-5.24 and perl-5.26?
No it is not currently possible. perl-5.24 is not a default so
anything depending on 5.24 needs to be also a module.
i.e. will the presence of non-modular perl packages built against
5.26
cause any issues for people wanting to use the perl-5.24 module?
Those should all get uninstalled if you switch to perl-5.24
Maybe if the perl modules become buildable at a point release, all
the
perl packages could be removed from the main EPEL-8 repo at that time
and moved into modules?
That will be up to a maintainer doing so. EPEL as I have been reminded
constantly in the last year is a community and not a product. If the
maintainers have no interest in modules.. then modules aren't going to
happen. If the maintainers do, then modules will happen. If the
maintainers can't agree on making modules happen or not.. we will end
up with a repeat of the Fedora java problems. In the end, it will be
people problems versus technology problems.
Apologies if this is a stupid question but modularity is still
something of an unknown to me.
You and me both :).
Paul.
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