[releng] Issue #8676: EPEL 7 - package versions out of sync between architectures

[Mattias Ellert]

ellert reported a new issue against the project: `releng` that you are following:
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* Describe the issue

The aarch64 architecture is not up to date w.r.t. the other architectures. This causes
differences in how packages are built, and builds - even though they are successful - are
rejected due to that noarch subpackages differ between architectures. See e.g.

https://apps.fedoraproject.org/koschei/package/root?collection=epel7
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/koschei/package/nordugrid-arc?collection=e...

In one case above different versions of rpm (4.11.3-35.el7 vs 4.11.3-40.el7) result
differences in autogenerated perl dependencies. 

* When do you need this? (YYYY/MM/DD)

As soon as possisble

* When is this no longer needed or useful? (YYYY/MM/DD)

When RHEL 7 is EOL

* If we cannot complete your request, what is the impact?

The affected noarch packages could possibly be converted to arch-dependent packages. But
it would be inconsistent and waste disk space.

``

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[Stephen J Smoogen]

smooge added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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aarch64 is no longer in sync because RHEL did not build a RHEL-7.7 of it. So this is not
an infrastructure problem and not something infrastructure can fix.


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[Mattias Ellert]

ellert added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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If RHEL-7 dropped the aarch64, why is EPEL-7 still building packages for the
architecture?
``

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[Stephen J Smoogen]

smooge added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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While I am also on the EPEL board.. this really needs to be discussed over in the EPEL
space versus here. https://pagure.io/epel/issue/74

EPEL is not like Fedora releases with full-time staff and product managers. It is instead
a community project sponsored by the Fedora group. That means the community has to come
together to make it work and the community also expects to have input when changes are
made. When RHEL-7.7 came out, that community input was delayed because no one was able to
attend meetings due to multiple conferences and PTO. 

At the first meeting where the input was gathered, the general consensus was keep it going
until it seemed to cause problems. Yours was the first report where it is obvious this
will not work and we need to drop this.  

I will put in a releng ticket to archive the last set of aarch64 builds to
/pub/archive/epel and drop it from the builders.
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[Stephen J Smoogen]

smooge added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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And my apologies.. I have a broken email filter and this got put in the infrastructure
queue for me. I have been acting on this like a infrastructure ticket when this was a
releng ticket.  THat is completely my fault and I apologize.

The steps needed to fix this ticket are the following:

1. Archive aarch64 to /pub/archive/epel/7/aarch64/
2. Remove 7/aarch64 from koji/bodhi
3. ???
``

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[Mohan Boddu]

mohanboddu added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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>  Remove 7/aarch64 from koji/bodhi
>  
@smooge What do you mean by this?
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[Stephen J Smoogen]

smooge added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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If agreed to today at the EPEL meeting, we would drop aarch64 as a target that koji builds
against for EPEL-7.  This would then need to go through all the places that aarch64 was
defined in which I assume is koji and bodhi.
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[Neal Gompa]

ngompa added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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@smooge What was the outcome of this at the EPEL meeting?
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[Kevin Fenzi]

kevin added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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We were hoping to test using CentOS 7.7 for just aarch64 moving forward... but I think we
were waiting until that existed.
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