I think the right solution is, to move add python imaging to the core
server. In that way it will be available to every user.
I have to review why it was moved to the Client only (it will be
available to server customers in a separate channel containing the
Client-only packages as soon as the RHN profiles get updated). I assume
dependencies where only from that Repo.
We'll target that for 5.1
Regards,
Daniel
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 12:33 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
On 17.07.2007 12:13, Joel Andres Granados wrote:
>
> Regarding the python-imaging package...
> What is the matter with including the 1.1.6 version in EPEL/el5? does
> it break anything?
> Both Plone and python-docutils (deps in EPEL) use the Image library from
> PIL and this library does not have any
> backward compatibility issues. additionally, RHEL5-client has no
> package that depends on
> python-imaging. So I say KISS, and ship 1.1.6 with the EPEL/el5. I
> know it goes against the EPEL policies,
> but I think its much better that messing with nvr.
This way lie dragons.
"EPEL does not replace packages from the distribution it was build for"
is IMHO not debatable -- just as it was in Extras before the merge.
For the situations at hand:
Problem1 -- python-imaging was EPEL: We made a error, but we are still
in the testing/buildup phase, so we can still remove it from the repo
and say loudly "apologize" and "we are sorry"(¹). Not ideal, but
problem
solved.
Problem2 -- python-imaging had a higher EVR then the EL5Client package:
Ignore those users that got the newer python-imaging from EPEL (see
Problem 1: "EPEL is still in testing" and "apologize"). Rebuild
plone
and python-docutils against the 1.1.5 package from EL (if that's
needed). Solved.
Problem3 -- no python-imaging in EL5Server: Not solved yet, but under
discussion.
CU
thl
(¹) -- we likely should put something (test-scripts?) in place to make
sure something similar does not happen again
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