On Thursday, 22 September 2016 at 02:18, jason taylor wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2016-09-20 at 07:26 -0400, jason taylor wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2016-09-20 at 08:34 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Let's keep the discussion on the epel-devel mailing list.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 08:33:49PM -0400, jason taylor wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Rich,
> > > >
> > > > I updated the spec to include:
> > > >
> > > > %if 0%{?el7}
> > > > ExcludeArch: ppc64
> > > > %endif
> > > >
> > > > The scratch build is here:
> > > >
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=15711388
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Is the conditional something you would want to merge into the
> > > > other
> > > > branches or in this case maintain the epel spec seperately
> > > > from
> > > > the
> > > > other branches?
> > >
> > > Please keep these changes in the epel 7 branch.
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I noticed that the latest upstream stable release is 2.48.4
> > > > and
> > > > also
> > > > that we build for very specific versions of unison.
> > > >
> > > > I was wondering what the history behind the RPM versioning
> > > > that
> > > > we
> > > > have
> > > > is and would it be possible/advisable to update to 2.48 while
> > > > we
> > > > are
> > > > adding the epel7 branch?
> > >
> > > If you want to build the latest version in the epel 7 branch,
> > > then
> > > go
> > > ahead. I need to get round to updating the OCaml packages in
> > > master
> > > at some point when I have the time.
> > >
> > > Rich.
> > >
> >
> > Sounds good, thanks!
> >
> > JT
>
> With regard to package naming, how do packages with specific naming
> like this get handled?
>
> For instance in this case, when updating to the latest upstream
> unison-
> 2.48.4 this changes the package name to unison248.
>
> Does this requires a new package request/review?
In Fedora, not anymore[1]. If EPEL doesn't have a specific guideline
for
this, then not here, either.
Regards,
Dominik
[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ReviewGuidelines#Package
_Review_Process
Thanks Dominik,
I didn't see any notes in the EPEL guidelines saying different but
wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.
JT