[EPEL-devel] Re: unison240 and epel7

[jason taylor]

On Thu, 2016-09-22 at 12:57 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
wrote:
>  On Thursday, 22 September 2016 at 02:18, jason taylor wrote:
>  > 
>  > On Tue, 2016-09-20 at 07:26 -0400, jason taylor wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > On Tue, 2016-09-20 at 08:34 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  > > > 
>  > > > 
>  > > > Let's keep the discussion on the epel-devel mailing list.
>  > > > 
>  > > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 08:33:49PM -0400, jason taylor wrote:
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > Hi Rich,
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > I updated the spec to include:
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > %if 0%{?el7}
>  > > > > ExcludeArch:   ppc64
>  > > > > %endif
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > The scratch build is here:
>  > > > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=15711388
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > Is the conditional something you would want to merge into the
>  > > > > other
>  > > > > branches or in this case maintain the epel spec seperately
>  > > > > from
>  > > > > the
>  > > > > other branches?
>  > > > 
>  > > > Please keep these changes in the epel 7 branch.
>  > > > 
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > I noticed that the latest upstream stable release is 2.48.4
>  > > > > and
>  > > > > also
>  > > > > that we build for very specific versions of unison.
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > I was wondering what the history behind the RPM versioning
>  > > > > that
>  > > > > we
>  > > > > have
>  > > > > is and would it be possible/advisable to update to 2.48 while
>  > > > > we
>  > > > > are
>  > > > > adding the epel7 branch?
>  > > > 
>  > > > If you want to build the latest version in the epel 7 branch,
>  > > > then
>  > > > go
>  > > > ahead.  I need to get round to updating the OCaml packages in
>  > > > master
>  > > > at some point when I have the time.
>  > > > 
>  > > > Rich.
>  > > > 
>  > > 
>  > > Sounds good, thanks!
>  > > 
>  > > JT
>  > 
>  > With regard to package naming, how do packages with specific naming
>  > like this get handled?
>  > 
>  > For instance in this case, when updating to the latest upstream
>  > unison-
>  > 2.48.4 this changes the package name to unison248.
>  > 
>  > Does this requires a new package request/review?
>  
>  In Fedora, not anymore[1]. If EPEL doesn't have a specific guideline
>  for
>  this, then not here, either.
>  
>  Regards,
>  Dominik
>  
>  [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ReviewGuidelines#Package
>  _Review_Process 
Thanks Dominik,

I didn't see any notes in the EPEL guidelines saying different but
wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. 

JT