#6239: blocking pidgin from EPEL-7

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Mon Aug 31 15:58:05 UTC 2015


#6239: blocking pidgin from EPEL-7
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 Reporter:  mcepl            |       Owner:  rel-eng@…
     Type:  task             |      Status:  new
Milestone:  Fedora 22 Final  |   Component:  koji
 Keywords:                   |  Blocked By:
 Blocking:                   |
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 There is a conflict between package with src.rpm pidgin in RHEL-7 (which
 provides libpurple, but not pidgin binary subpackage) and pidgin-epel
 (providing binary subpackage pidgin, but not libpurple).
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 (15:32:59) nirik: kalev / mcepl: we now need to block the old pigdin in
 epel... I can do that now.
 (15:33:44) nirik: mcepl: can you file a releng ticket on that for record
 keeping?
 (15:44:11) mcepl: nirik: on what? On blocking pidgin or Workstation?
 (15:45:22) nirik: mcepl: blocking pidgin, and https://fedorahosted.org
 /rel-eng/
 (15:45:39) nirik: we aren't going to add workstation, that adds it's own
 bundle of problems
 (15:46:49) mcepl: nirik: so effectively, RHEL/CentOS-7 users won't have
 /usr/bin/pidgin? That sounds bad.
 (15:47:15) nirik: huh? doesn't your pigdin-epel provide that?
 (15:49:16) mcepl: my original question ... which probably got lost ...
 what to do with bitlbee still not getting libpurple-devel even with
 pidgin-epel being in buildroot overrie?
 (15:49:41) nirik: mcepl: because nothing has changed yet until we block
 the pidgin package in EPEL
 (15:49:53) mcepl: see
 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=10893881
 (15:51:20) dgilmore: mcepl: we have to untag all the pidgin builds
 (15:51:32) dgilmore: which happens as part of the retiring
 [...]
 (16:10:41) kalev: nirik: what's the problem with adding workstation?
 (16:12:30) nirik: it's been a long time since I looked, but as I recall it
 had things like different versions of packages from server. Also, if we
 build and depend on things only in workstation, some epel rpms would be
 uninstallable on just server without adding workstation, etc. etc.
 (16:14:40) kalev: ah yes, I can see how these can lead to problems
 (16:16:20) kalev: I am not sure versions actually differ in practice;
 maybe sometimes one channel gets a hotfix that the other one doesn't
 (16:17:13) kalev: not entirely sure
 (16:17:40) kalev: I don't want to have a situation where epel packages
 replace core workstation packages though
 (16:17:52) kalev: this can lead to an endless amount of trouble
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