[EPEL-devel] RHEL-7.7 problems

[Stephen John Smoogen]

This release has had a multitude of problems this release.

* The python3 problems were caused because there were complaints that the
python36 was conflicting with the RHEL-7 python3 causing build problems.
The maintainers removed python36 to try and fix this and broke centos
consumers who relied on EPEL.

* The real problem turned out to be definitions which RHEL over-rode EPEL
build srpm definitions. This needed further package updates which are in
the buildroot, but while debugging this we found at least two more
buildroot problems.

* One of the items is that RHEL did not update the rhel-alt platform which
contained aarch64 or power9 with the EL7.7 release. This means that these
are frozen at 7.6 it would seem. I am not sure what to do about this at the
moment.

* The other problem is that reposync broke once again with the Red Hat cdn.
Running the script by hand would show that it thought it had downloaded
everything but it was clear only parts of the 7.7 had been downloaded for
various architectures. Only by starting over seems to have gotten things to
unstick.

I expect we will have several more issues/problems to deal with.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.