EPEL 7 question

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 14:10 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>         On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 07:38 -0700, Ken Dreyer wrote:
>         > Hi Richard,
>         >
>         > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Richard Shaw
>         <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>         > > I noticed that EPEL 7 branches were created for several of
>         my packages that
>         > > have el6 branches, but not all of them. I didn't request
>         them (yet) so I'm
>         > > wondering, are some packages automatically added or did
>         someone else request
>         > > them as a dependency to one of their packages? I need to
>         dig through my
>         > > packages but I intend to maintain el7 branches of all of
>         my packages that
>         > > have el6 branches.
>         >
>         > It's possible that these were some of the packages that you
>         and I
>         > share as dependencies of MythTV. I requested branches for a
>         lot of my
>         > packages on January 11th using Dennis' procedure with the
>         wiki [1],
>         > but I haven't gotten around to doing the builds in Koji yet.
>         I'm
>         > planning to do the builds by next week.
>         
>         
>         I would've expected anything that exists in epel6 and doesn't
>         exist in
>         rhel7 to get an epel7 branch. It seems a bit ludicrous doing
>         it manually
>         - do I have to go through all the deps of any package I want
>         to build
>         for epel7 and figure this out manually and file branch
>         requests for each
>         package that isn't in rhel7? yeesh.
>         
> Agreed... The only argument I can think of against it is that we don't
> want stuff that's not being maintained from automatically making it's
> way into el7

Well, things don't get *built* just because they have a git branch. I
don't think we usually do mass builds in epel, do we?

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