EPEL tracks RHEL, not clones.

EPEL10 is likely to resolve this, however.  Ref
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/epel-10-proposal

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 1:31 PM Leon Fauster via epel-devel <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Am 10.05.23 um 05:24 schrieb Maxwell G:
> > Hello EPEL users and developers,
> >
> >
> > RHEL 9.2 was released today,
> > so I have updated ansible in EPEL 9 from 6.3.0 to 7.2.0 to match RHEL
> > 9.2's ansible-core bump from 2.13.3 to 2.14.2.
> > Each ansible major version is tied to a specific major version of
> > ansible-core, and we keep them in sync.
> >
> > Along with this change, RHEL 9.2 builds ansible-core for the python3.11
> > stack instead of the default python3 (3.9) stack.
> > Therefore, ansible in EPEL now built for python3.11 as well.
> >
> > Here is the Bodhi update:
> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2023-f51a0ff8a1
> > Please help test and give karma.
> >
> > Until this update is pushed to stable, you may receive an error like
> > this when running dnf upgrade
> >
> > ```
> > Error:
> >   Problem: package ansible-6.3.0-2.el9.noarch requires
> python3.9dist(ansible-core) >= 2.13.3, but none of the providers can be
> installed
> >    - cannot install both ansible-core-2.14.2-4.el9.x86_64 and
> ansible-core-2.13.3-2.el9_1.x86_64
> >    - cannot install both ansible-core-2.14.2-4.el9.x86_64 and
> ansible-core-2.13.3-1.el9.x86_64
> >    - cannot install the best update candidate for package
> ansible-core-2.13.3-2.el9_1.x86_64
> >    - cannot install the best update candidate for package
> ansible-6.3.0-2.el9.noarch
> > (try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting
> packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to
> use not only best candidate packages)
> > ```
> >
> > There are a couple potential solutions:
> >
> > 1. Run
> >       $ dnf upgrade --exclude ansible-core
> >     to skip ansible-core and upgrade everything else.
> > 2. In a couple hours from from now (now is 3:15 UTC), you'll be able to
> install
> >     ansible 7.2.0 from testing with
> >       $ dnf upgrade --refresh --enablerepo=epel-testing ansible
> ansible-core
> >     and then run a plain `dnf upgrade` as usual.
> >
>
>
> While setting up a new workstation with an EL rebuild, I run into the
> situation that ansible is not installable (rocky still on 9.1). Is there
> a change from EPEL side to close this time gap by at least keep older
> packages (current-1) on the repos? Like epel-next closes the "forward"
> gap, this would close such "backward" gap, thought ...
>
> --
> Leon
>
>
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