EPEL and RHEL High Availability / Resilient Storage

[Ken Dreyer]

Hi EPEL folks,

There are some packages in CentOS 7 that did not ship in the main RHEL
7 Server product.

Examples:

python-jwt http://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:1032
python-adal https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:1042

This went into the "High Availability" and "Resilient Storage" add-ons
of RHEL, not the usual RHEL Base/Optional/Extras.

This means that CentOS 7 really includes the RHEL 7 HA and RS products.

This also means that some EPEL 7 packages cannot install without these
repos enabled on RHEL, see eg.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1674764

Should EPEL's documentation include these two repos?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

[Kevin Fenzi]

On 2/11/19 9:27 AM, Ken Dreyer wrote:
> Hi EPEL folks,
>
> There are some packages in CentOS 7 that did not ship in the main RHEL
> 7 Server product.
>
> Examples:
>
> python-jwt http://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:1032
> python-adal https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:1042
>
> This went into the "High Availability" and "Resilient Storage" add-ons
> of RHEL, not the usual RHEL Base/Optional/Extras.
>
> This means that CentOS 7 really includes the RHEL 7 HA and RS products.
>
> This also means that some EPEL 7 packages cannot install without these
> repos enabled on RHEL, see eg.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1674764
>
> Should EPEL's documentation include these two repos?
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Well, we have:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#Does_EPEL_replace_packages_provided_...

I am not sure this belongs on the front page... but it might be nice to
be more visible yeah.

kevin

[Ken Dreyer]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:38 AM Kevin Fenzi  wrote:
> On 2/11/19 9:27 AM, Ken Dreyer wrote:
> > Hi EPEL folks,
> >
> > There are some packages in CentOS 7 that did not ship in the main RHEL
> > 7 Server product.
> >
> > Examples:
> >
> > python-jwt http://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:1032
> > python-adal https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:1042
> >
> > This went into the "High Availability" and "Resilient Storage" add-ons
> > of RHEL, not the usual RHEL Base/Optional/Extras.
> >
> > This means that CentOS 7 really includes the RHEL 7 HA and RS products.
> >
> > This also means that some EPEL 7 packages cannot install without these
> > repos enabled on RHEL, see eg.
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1674764
> >
> > Should EPEL's documentation include these two repos?
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>
> Well, we have:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#Does_EPEL_replace_packages_provided_...
>
> I am not sure this belongs on the front page... but it might be nice to
> be more visible yeah.

Cool, thanks for the confirmation! My teammates and I have hit this a
couple times unfortunately.

I've edited the front EPEL wiki page to instruct RHEL users to enable
the HA repo in addition to Optional and Extras.

- Ken