On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 4:52 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 2:18 PM Christopher <ctubb...@fedoraproject.org> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I know Fedora doesn't directly support Amazon Linux, but I was > > wondering if the package maintainer for rpmconf on EPEL was aware that > > the latest version doesn't work on Amazon Linux 2, which recently > > updated to python-3.7, whereas rpmconf has a direct dependency on > > python(abi)=3.6. If it's possible to use '>=3.6' instead, and the > > package maintainer is willing to update it so it works with python 3.7 > > on Amazon Linux 2, that would be great for my use case. > > You need to talk to Amazon. They have their own EPEL repository, > inconsistently forked from EPEL and enabled with the > "amazon-linux-extras" command, along with a variety of other > not-really-yum-repo-managed tools like mock and ansible. It's > problematic.. And don't let that incomplete EPEL channel get mixed > with the official EPEL repository in your configurations.
Yeah, I noticed the same problem for rpmconf in both EPEL lines. Somehow, I don't think this is a problem Amazon is likely to prioritize. I'd probably be better off rebuilding rpmconf from source for my instance (using a modified EPEL SRPM). > > The time spent hunting for workarounds might be better spent migrating > to RHEL or CentOS, which is likely to be more compatible with Fedora > packages backported through EPEL. The decision to leapfrog to python > 3.7 was problematic, since it also puts them ahead of RHEL 8 and > CentOS 8's releases of python 3.6 and complicates EPEL support > profoundly. I would *love* to be using CentOS, but this is for an "Amazon Workspaces" instance, which only supports Amazon Linux 2 or Windows, because of the driver support needed for the PCoIP features inherent to the service. There are tons of other problems with Amazon Linux, too, such as the complete lack of USB support in the kernel... which makes forwarding USB devices over PCoIP (which is a supported feature) a completely useless feature. These problems don't exist in CentOS... but I'm stuck with the shitty Amazon instance I'm forced to use in my environment for now. Thanks for the suggestions. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
