On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Brian Bouterse <[email protected]> wrote:
> It seems that the mongodb and Django14 packages in EPEL6 are going to be > changing in some big ways. It's still early in the conversation, but here > is what I've learned at the EPSCO (EPel Steering COmmitee) meeting today[0]. > > mongodb 2.4 is not supported upstream from epel and EPSCO approved an > upgrade of mongodb in epel6. It will likely be to a 3.x based version. It > will first be pushed to epel-testing first. What is the newest mongodb that > we are compatible with? do we know? > > One idea I have is to create pulp-smash test jobs which are testing pulp > using bits from epel-testing in addition to epel-release. That will help us > identify issues before one day it just breaks on us. > > Also, Django14 is on the short list to be pulled from epel6 due to > upstream not supporting it and is unmaintained from a cve perspective. > Everyone recognizes now that it must be replaced with something versus what > happened last time of having it just removed. The current thinking is to > add python34 (not scl) to epel6 and add python-django 1.8 to epel6 also. > The will be discussed again at the EPSCO meeting next week on Thursday 11/2 > at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting on freenode. I'm planning to attend, but > come if you're interested. > One or more parts of the date/time can't be right. Can you double-check? > > This still isn't great for Pulp 2.y on EL6. Pulp will break when Django14 > is removed, even if Django 1.8 is available because Pulp 2.y and all of its > deps would have to be updated to run in the Python 3.4 runtime. I believe > this will likely happen before Pulp 3 is even released. I don't think we're > going to switch the EL6 runtime to Python 3.4 for Pulp 2.y, so we need to > think carefully about our options here. > Are you saying they would add python34 to epel6, then add a django 1.8 package that only runs on python 3.4? I suppose that would make some sense since django 1.8 dropped support for python 2.6. But it wouldn't be much help for pulp 2.y.
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