On 08/20/2010 01:42 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:58:24 -0700
Jesse Keating<jkeating(a)j2solutions.net> wrote:
> Here is the situation. In EPEL6 we'd like to ship Trac 0.12. This is
> the latest upstream release and since upstream tends to do db format
> changes between releases we'd like to start with the newest one and
> run with it.
>
> However trac 0.12 requires python-genshi 0.6, and RHEL6(.0) will ship
> with python-genshi-0.5.x. I've put in an RFE to get that updated in
> RHEL6.1. There is good chance, but not a guarantee that this will
> happen.
>
> One way out of this situation I see is to (temporarily?) bundle
> python-genshi 0.6 with the Trac package, solely for the use of the
> Trac package. It'd require that Trac maintainers become bugzilla
> watchers (somehow...) of python-genshi so that we can see any bugs or
> updates and make sure they get applied if necessary.
I think bundling is a bad idea.
> I really don't want to ship trac 0.11 with EPEL6. It won't likely
> have a super long life upstream which would put us in a bad situation
> of having to support it ourselves and try to roll security fixes for
> it ourselves (which was !fun on older EPEL branches for older Trac).
> The only other option I see here is to withold Trac from EPEL6 until
> (maybe?) RHEL6.1 which also doesn't seem like a fun option.
>
> Looking for other ideas, or thoughts on the above. Thanks!
Submit a 'python-genshi-06' package and have track 0.12 use that
instead of the base python-genshi? You would need to of course make
sure they could parallel install.
kevin
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