On 13 September 2016 at 17:14, Avram Lubkin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> The reasoning for needing a python3-foobaz is that we don't replace >> the python2 version of foobaz with a package which does not work at >> all with the python2 installed and possibly breaks an existing app. > > > You seem to be talking about RPM names and not SRPM names. By convention, > any Python 3 package for EPEL7 would actually be python34-package. The point > of this thread is to discuss SRPM names and if python34-package can be built > from a SPRM package named python-package like in Fedora. Since python2 and > python3 packages are generally built from the same source and spec, the SRPM > and Fedora Git repo are usually not versioned. The problem is when a python2 > package exists in RHEL, but we want to supply a python34 package. The draft > guidelines (which are the only ones we have) say this is a conflict, but it > seems that is not stated anywhere in the EPEL guidelines. The main problem > this creates is very few python34 packages get created because people don't > want to maintain multiple repos for the same thing. >
You are right, I was not correctly thinking when I wrote that. Part of my brain was assuming that you would be pulling in newer versions of python-foobaz since usually the stuff in RHEL is considered old and decrepit for people wanting python3. The one issue I can see with using the python-foobaz-1.3-0.1.epel.src.rpm is that it is going to cause problems for CentOS builders/users in that the spec file for the CentOS package is going to conflict with the EPEL one.. but that is just a concern that I would want the CentOS members to talk about. > As far as the limited arch packages, I bring that up because it seems from > the guidelines their SRPM name would be the same as the one in RHEL. If that > is acceptable there, it likely should be for python packages. > > Avram > > > > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected] > -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected]
