On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:01:14PM -0400, Felix Kaechele wrote:
Hi there,
I think this has been discussed at committee meetings before: nginx's
procedure of immediately dropping a release series when a new one hits the
stable branches is essentially forcing us to upgrade along with it, unless
someone is willing to backport patches.
I personally am not willing to do backports as I do not use EL7 at this
point and only continue maintaining the package as a courtesy to the
community.
I therefor intend to make the following changes to the nginx package in
EPEL7:
- Update to 1.20.0
- build against OpenSSL 1.1 to enable TLS1.3 support
Do I require additional permission do move forward with this in this manner?
There should not be any breaking changes or incompatible changes to config
syntax. But I'll admit that I do not have complex config scenarios as
testcases.
EPEL8 is not affected as nginx doesn't have an EPEL build for EL8. It is
maintained upstream.
There are, however, modules with certain streams (1.18 and mainline, for
example) available from EPEL.
I think this sounds fine, but you might want to send a note to
'epel-announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org' once its in updates-testing and
again when it goes to stable.
kevin