[EPEL-devel] HTCondor on EPEL 7

[František Dvořák]

Hi,

On Fri, 2015-08-07 at 09:07 +0200, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Is there any reason to include HTCondor (development) version in EPEL 7 ?

The problem is there exists other SW depending on condor (particulary
condor-classads library), which needs to go to EPEL 7.

The packaging is taken from Fedora branches.

> 1) RPM is broken (kind of, lacks of condor-externals (if memory serves 
> well) so update fails on a system where condor (using official repo) is 
> already installed).

But the condor-externals bundles external dependencies (!). Some of them
are already in EPEL.

> 2) Two repos already exist for stable and devel versions, supporting 
> el5, 6, 7, made by HTCondor people themselves: 
> http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/yum/
> 

I can imagine to add dummy condor-externals package, if it will help. To
make it more compatible using provids/obsoletes would be problematic I
guess: both repositories have increasing versions. HTCondor repositories
may need to use priorities.

The best way would be to package condor directly in EPEL by HTCondor.

Cheers,
  Frantisek