On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 12:14, Mátyás Selmeci <mselmeci...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 1/31/19 1:05 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On 1/30/19 1:39 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > >> Question: how plausibly can we sort of "test retire" yum? i.e. just > >> somehow run a single compose process without it included, and see what > >> breaks? > > > > Well, we could block yum in koji and remove it from all builders and see > > what happens, but I think it will break all epel builds (unless we > > switch epel to use dnf for buildroot population too) at least. > > > > kevin > > Can we put DNF in EPEL so people still targeting EL 7 can adapt their > scripts? >
Dnf was added to RHEL-7 in the latest release as a tech preview and is in CentOS extras. As such later versions can not be put in EPEL without major packaging work. > As a side note, this is a problem with Python 3, too; I can't get any > Python 3 bindings for the yum/rpm libs on EL 7, which makes it hard to > port software that uses them. > There will be work on making a newer Python36 in EPEL in the next couple of months. > -Mat > > -- > Mátyás (Mat) Selmeci > Open Science Grid Software Team / Center for High-Throughput Computing > University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Computer Sciences > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
