taglib in el7

[John Pilkington]

Hi,

This is essentially a rehash of my post yesterday to the elrepo list.  I 
think it might be more appropriate here.

For some time I have been building and running MythTV rpms to run under 
Scientific Linux, currently version 7.9.  This has required some hoop 
jumping (just a little of it by me) as MythTV has evolved.  No doubt I 
will have to abandon the builds fairly soon, but I would prefer not to 
do so immediately.

Yesterday the MythTV project reset its minimum version of taglib to 
1.11.1, and a bunch of updates depending on that has just been committed.

rpms for taglib 1.11+ (and taglib-devel) are available for CentOS 8 and 
several other distributions, but the 'current' version in SL7 et al is 
1.8-8.20130218git.  This is in the core repos, and I understand that 
other repos cannot provide updates for such packages.

I have not yet tried a personal rebuild of the taglib packages from el8, 
but is there any possibility that the taglib and taglib-devel in core 
el7 might be updated?

Thanks,

John P

[Troy Dawson]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 4:09 AM John Pilkington <johnpilk222(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  This is essentially a rehash of my post yesterday to the elrepo list.  I
>  think it might be more appropriate here.
>
>  For some time I have been building and running MythTV rpms to run under
>  Scientific Linux, currently version 7.9.  This has required some hoop
>  jumping (just a little of it by me) as MythTV has evolved.  No doubt I
>  will have to abandon the builds fairly soon, but I would prefer not to
>  do so immediately.
>
>  Yesterday the MythTV project reset its minimum version of taglib to
>  1.11.1, and a bunch of updates depending on that has just been committed.
>
>  rpms for taglib 1.11+ (and taglib-devel) are available for CentOS 8 and
>  several other distributions, but the 'current' version in SL7 et al is
>  1.8-8.20130218git.  This is in the core repos, and I understand that
>  other repos cannot provide updates for such packages.
>
>  I have not yet tried a personal rebuild of the taglib packages from el8,
>  but is there any possibility that the taglib and taglib-devel in core
>  el7 might be updated?
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  John P 
Short Answer:
No
Long Answer:
RHEL7 (the core el7 as you say) entered it's maintenance phase with
RHEL 7.9 last year.
This means no new features, and no updates that are not security
and/or major bugs.
Just to be sure, I double checked if there was anything that looked
like there was work on a new libtag, and the answer is the same, nope.

I know it's not the news you wanted, but it's the news that is.
Troy

[John Pilkington]

On 27/01/2021 14:19, Troy Dawson wrote:
>  On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 4:09 AM John Pilkington
> <johnpilk222(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is essentially a rehash of my post yesterday to the elrepo list.  I
> > think it might be more appropriate here.
> >
> > For some time I have been building and running MythTV rpms to run under
> > Scientific Linux, currently version 7.9.  This has required some hoop
> > jumping (just a little of it by me) as MythTV has evolved.  No doubt I
> > will have to abandon the builds fairly soon, but I would prefer not to
> > do so immediately.
> >
> > Yesterday the MythTV project reset its minimum version of taglib to
> > 1.11.1, and a bunch of updates depending on that has just been committed.
> >
> > rpms for taglib 1.11+ (and taglib-devel) are available for CentOS 8 and
> > several other distributions, but the 'current' version in SL7 et al is
> > 1.8-8.20130218git.  This is in the core repos, and I understand that
> > other repos cannot provide updates for such packages.
> >
> > I have not yet tried a personal rebuild of the taglib packages from el8,
> > but is there any possibility that the taglib and taglib-devel in core
> > el7 might be updated?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John P
>  
>  Short Answer:
>  No
>  Long Answer:
>  RHEL7 (the core el7 as you say) entered it's maintenance phase with
>  RHEL 7.9 last year.
>  This means no new features, and no updates that are not security
>  and/or major bugs.
>  Just to be sure, I double checked if there was anything that looked
>  like there was work on a new libtag, and the answer is the same, nope.
>  
>  I know it's not the news you wanted, but it's the news that is.
>  Troy 
Thanks for the quick answer.  It's probably the one I was expecting.

John