Would you mind opening a bugzilla with this information. The epel package maintainers for gfal2 way, or may not, be monitoring the epel-devel mailing list.
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 8:06 AM Carl Edquist <edqu...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: > Dear EPEL Devs, > > We ran into an issue on el7 attempting to upgrade from gfal2-util to the > python3-gfal2-util replacement. > > > [TL;DR: it seems python[23]-gfal2-util in el7 & el8 should all have an > "Obsoletes: gfal2-util < 1.6.0", even if without a matching Provides.] > > > Apparently python2-gfal2-util has Provides/Obsoletes info for replacing > gfal2-util, but the python3- option does not. > > So if you have the old[1] gfal2-util package installed, and then try to > yum install python3-gfal2-util, yum will not remove gfal2-util, and so it > will end up with file conflicts between the old gfal2-util and the new > gfal2-util-scripts. > > I imagine that epel's intention was to leave the default upgrade path for > gfal2-util to the python2- version, and if that is the case I can > understand that it's better not to include a "Provides: gfal2-util" in the > new python3-gfal2-util. > > However, it seems python3-gfal2-util should still have an > "Obsoletes: gfal2-util < 1.6.0", to let yum know that it should remove > the old gfal2-util when python3-gfal2-util is installed. (Rather than > failing due to conflicts.) > > Likewise, in the el8 case, there are no Provides/Obsoletes for gfal2-util > in either of the python[23]-gfal2-util packages, and as a result if you > have an old[2] gfal2-util package installed, yum will fail if you try to > install the python2- or python3- replacements. > > It makes sense that you want to leave out the Provides (as not to > automatically upgrade to either of the python2- or python3- options), but > it seems the Obsoletes should still be there to make the manual install > possible. > > Is this something you would consider tweaking? > > Thanks, > Carl > > > [1] > https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/7.2020-10-05/x86_64/Packages/g/gfal2-util-1.5.3-1.el7.noarch.rpm > > [2] > https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/8.2.2020-11-04/Everything/x86_64/Packages/g/gfal2-util-1.5.3-5.el8.noarch.rpm > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to epel-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/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >
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