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.
1. 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.
Not sure if maillist is correct way to do this..
It is where this should have started. I realize I am a bit livid, but I and the other EPSCo committee members are the one who usually have to spend their off-hours fixing these problems versus doing other things. [Like writing the software that would have told you that this package couldn't be put into EPEL without an exception.]
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