[EPEL-devel] Handling packages with missing dependencies provided by HA-RS repos?
I've been checking the packages that won't install on EPEL [1] and found out that
drbd-pacemaker cant get installed
because of a missing dependency (pacemaker). While researching why, I saw that pacemaker
exists on EPEL7 because it's
provided by the HighAvailability repo, but by policy [2] that repo is not a base for EPEL8
nor EPEL9.
When I asked on how to handle this cases on the steering meeting, some proposed ideas
were:
* Rebuild the dependencies as -epel
* Retire the packages
* Bringing back HA & RS repo
The only other package that i've found also has this problem is resalloc-aws that
depends on awscli.
Is there a policy on this cases? Are EPEL packages allowed to require packages outside of
the policy approved?
I would like more feedback on how to proceed so we can file bugs for this packages
correctly.
Package: drbd-pacemaker-9.20.2-1.el9
Error: Problem: conflicting requests - nothing provides pacemaker needed by
drbd-pacemaker-9.20.2-1.el9.x86_64
Package: resalloc-aws-1.1-1.el9
Error: Problem: conflicting requests - nothing provides awscli needed by
resalloc-aws-1.1-1.el9.noarch
Package: drbd-pacemaker-9.17.0-1.el8
Error: Problem: conflicting requests - nothing provides pacemaker needed by
drbd-pacemaker-9.17.0-1.el8.x86_64
[1] https://tdawson.fedorapeople.org/epel/willit/epel8/status-wont-install.html
[2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-policy/#_policy