On 9 May 2016 at 08:29, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
On 9 May 2016 at 02:38, Igor Gnatenko ignatenko@redhat.com wrote:
Hi all,
Sorry for delay for writing this. We wanted to provide latest DNF stack in EPEL7 which means we also need newer components like libsolv, hawkey, librepo, etc.
Some of those are in RHEL7.2 and unfortunately it's not that easy to get them updated:
- librepo
- libsolv
- hawkey
Probably some more, didn't remember. There are no ABI breakage with those updates and actually only PackageKit (via libhif) depends on it.
So I would like to ask EPSCo to provide exception to override those packages in EPEL7.
- We have never given an exception before that I know of. [I think
openstack asked for an exception but there was too much customer problems with it to make it possible. ] 2. You could have broken hundreds of thousands of computers (mainly because they have yum install in their cron jobs it looks like). Pushing and then asking for permission is not acceptable. It usually leads to the package set being removed and blacklisted from EPEL. 3. I understand the importance of this package set, and will try to work with you on this, but I am going to need a day to not be pissed.
OK feeling a lot less peeved. In any case, we haven't done over-rides in the past because we have a 'no replacing Red Hat Enterprise Linux' as a core tenant of the EPEL repository. The ways that we do this is have these packages be parallel install-able packages versus replacement packages.