On 27 January 2018 at 18:45, Todd Zullinger <[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On 27 January 2018 at 15:41, Todd Zullinger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm not sure if we want to limit the package set to > >> devtoolset* via includepkgs or not. I did so in the above > >> commit and have tested it very lightly. Restricting the > >> packages may help prevent packages from accidentally pulling > >> in bits from SCLo beyond the intended devtoolset packages. > >> > > If that works, I don't have a problem with that. > > I think it does, but I worry that I'm missing some oddity in > yum/dnf/mock parsing of the single config file. I tested > with mock-1.4.8 on Fedora 26. Moving the epel repo section > after the sclo* repos I was still able to install epel > packages. I was worried that the includepkgs might not be > properly limited to the sclo repos, but it seems like it is. > It's easy enough to remove it if that proves incorrect with > wider testing. > > >> Technically, can't this be supported in epel-6 as well? > >> (Please pardon me if I have overlooked a decision to only > >> support DTS in epel-7.) > >> > > I don't know of any reason it would not work in EL-6 either. The spec > files > > I found using devtool-set only set it to rhel 7. > > Yeah, I imagine we're at the point where most people > building things which require a newer compiler are moving to > EL-7. I could have used it while trying to build znc-1.6 > for EL-6 a year or so ago. > > (I ended up building znc with clang instead. I was going to > send the patch to the znc maintainers in EPEL, but it got > dropped in EL-6 before I had time to do so.) > > I don't think it would be a problem, and may be useful for EL-6 as we still have more EL-6 users than EL-7 users. That said, I am also not wanting to break the world here. If people with more experience with the devtoolset think it would make things harder in EL-6 or would need other flags to work.. we can put them in the appropriate section.
-- Stephen J Smoogen.
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