On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 8:09 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 5:17 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 26. 04. 19 3:08, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 3:20 PM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> >>
> >> On 25. 04. 19 20:35, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> >>> > How much is going to be needed for "mock" to still
work for older
> >>> > operating systems?
> >>>
> >>> I'm confused. How is the change relevant for mock? I think
I'm missing some
> >>> pieces of the thought process here, could you please elaborate on
that?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> In the past, changes where old versions of python were no longer
supported in
> >>> Fedora, then newer versions of mock/etc became dead in older OS's
like RHEL-5's
> >>> python24 and RHEL-6's python26. This would make compiling packages
for certain
> >>> versions of the OS impossible because the parent operating system
didn't have a
> >>> version of python it could use and you couldn't use newer source
code on the
> >>> older os.
> >>>
> >>> The question is moot because you are the wrong person to ask. The
person to ask
> >>> is the owner of mock and I expect the answer will be... I don't
have time to
> >>> support N versions of python but you have the source code.. so do it
yourself.
> >>> [Probably nicer than that.. but the general effect.]
> >>
> >> mock in EPEL 6 is already "dead" in that matter:
> >>
> >>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694159
> >>
> >> mock in EPEL 7 can run on Python 3.6:
> >>
> >>
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mock/pull-request/6
> >
> > Which could make sense, but makes mock more awkward to install.
>
> How is that more awkward? The installation would still be be `yum install
> epel-release && yum install mock`.
It brings in a distinct scripting language that is not part of the
commercially supported base OS and makes the OS image for the server
with mick installed notably larger. It's not *outrageous*, but it
branches the tools for mock further from the base python on older,
RHEL 7 systems. It adds support and places even more commoercial grade
support on the EPEL repository.packages.
Not for long. RHEL 7.7 is going to include Python 3 in the base:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1639030
And even if it wasn't, mock only exists in EPEL anyway, so we can
consider EPEL dependencies for mock itself.
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