Re: Plan for todays EPEL meeting - 2009-10-09

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Friday 09 October 2009 12:07:42 pm Christopher wrote:
>  On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 10:30 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  > Here's the topic list for todays EPEL meeting, which will take
>  > place at 21:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net.
>  >
>  > - Status update on action items
>  >    - smooge: Blocking packages already in RHEL
>  > - Fuse for 5.4 status
>  > - QA efforts
>  > - Open Floor
>  >
>  > If there is something else that folks would like to discuss, please
>  > followup to this email or mention it in the Open Floor section of the
>  > meeting at the end. Hope to see everyone there!
>  
>  Is it possible to get chained builds for EPEL on koji?
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/UsingKoji#Chained_builds 
its not
possible.  it is only possible for devel in fedora. everything else 
you need to request a buildroot override

>  I would like to support several perl modules in fedora/EPEL.  The
> main
>  perl module (Yahoo-Marketing) compiles fine against fedora-current.
>  However, it needs newer versions of several core modules to work on
>  RHEL5 (the only platform we use this on internally). 
core as in provided by the
perl rpm?  if so we can not update it. anything 
provided by HREL we cannot replace.

>  
>  >From what I understand about chained builds, it would allow me to build
>  
>  the package dependencies along with the main perl-Yahoo-Marketing
>  package.  Then I could post them somewhere like fedorapeople so other
>  interested parties could use them. 
scratch builds cant be chainbuilt either,

Dennis