[EPEL-devel] Re: Python 3.6 in EPEL

[Kevin Fenzi]

On 12/05/2017 01:36 AM, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
>  Hey folks!
>  
>  I have a need for Python 3.5+ in EPEL (newest versions of Mailman 3 need
>  it), so I tried rebuilding it by taking advantage of our %python3_other_*
>  macros. There's a lot of packages that need to be built in the right order
>  to get to a full Python 3.6 build, and even much more packages that need
>  changes to use those macros.
>  I finally got to complete the build and its dependencies, and I uploaded
>  the packages here:
>  
>    https://abompard.fedorapeople.org/python36-epel/
>  
>  In that directory there's also a "build-order.txt" file that lists which
>  packages should be rebuild, in which order, and with which options.
>  I'm totally willing to push the spec changes I've made to the maintainers
>  of course, if you think it's the right way to go. 
Cool. Thanks very much for working on this!

>  The main python36 packages carries an additional file to define the
> proper
>  %python3_other* macros, but it should actually be an update of the main
>  python-srpm-macros package. 
Yeah, or epel-rpm-macros... but I guess python makes more sense.

>  What do you think? Where should I go from here? Should I make pull
> requests
>  for the individual spec changes now? 
Well, IMHO it would be good to land any work that keeps working with 34,
but we should probibly get some provenpackager(s) to drive all the rest
of the changes and submitting one big update with all the python36 +
rebuilds.

We will need to also schedule and announce when the switch will take
place, as after this lands the 34 versions of the packages will
disappear and the 36 ones land...

kevin