Re: [CentOS] CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL

2014-11-05 Thread Jake Shipton
On 05/11/14 07:04, Michael Schumacher wrote: Hi, Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 1:43:50 PM, you wrote: TL;DR: There are a large number of orphaned/unmaintained packages in EPEL across the 5, 6, and 7 trees. These packages will be removed from EPEL unless they are picked up by a packager.

Re: [CentOS] CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL

2014-11-05 Thread Jim Perrin
On 11/05/2014 01:04 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote: Hi, Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 1:43:50 PM, you wrote: TL;DR: There are a large number of orphaned/unmaintained packages in EPEL across the 5, 6, and 7 trees. These packages will be removed from EPEL unless they are picked up by a

Re: [CentOS] CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL

2014-11-05 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 06:01 -0600, Jim Perrin wrote: As far as package installation goes, Jake outlined most things quite well. What's being ignored is that this depends on the package. These packages aren't maintained, so no one is checking them to see if there are security issues

Re: [CentOS] CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL

2014-11-05 Thread Alain Péan
Le 04/11/2014 13:43, Jim Perrin a écrit : Please review the package lists to see if something you use is impacted. If you're impacted and you have the required skills, please consider taking over ownership of the package. I am surprised to see as orphan such well known packages as gparted, or

Re: [CentOS] CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL

2014-11-05 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 02:31:27PM +, Always Learning wrote: Does that mean the source coding will be lost forever ? and if someone in the future wants that functionality, they will have to re-invent the 'wheel' ? Only the packaging templates and any patches. This is tracking people

Re: [CentOS] CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL

2014-11-05 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Wed, November 5, 2014 8:31 am, Always Learning wrote: On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 06:01 -0600, Jim Perrin wrote: As far as package installation goes, Jake outlined most things quite well. What's being ignored is that this depends on the package. These packages aren't maintained, so no one is

Re: [CentOS] CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL

2014-11-05 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Also note, the announcement is not very clear on which EL version is being orphaned. For example, python-boto is being orphaned, but it appears that this is only for EL5. K ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL

2014-11-05 Thread Jim Perrin
On 11/05/2014 12:36 PM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: Also note, the announcement is not very clear on which EL version is being orphaned. For example, python-boto is being orphaned, but it appears that this is only for EL5. The announcement includes links to each version, 5,6 and 7. The package

[CentOS] CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL

2014-11-04 Thread Jim Perrin
If you use the EPEL repository, please read https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/epel-announce/2014-November/32.html TL;DR: There are a large number of orphaned/unmaintained packages in EPEL across the 5, 6, and 7 trees. These packages will be removed from EPEL unless they are picked up

Re: [CentOS] CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL

2014-11-04 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 04.11.2014 um 13:43 schrieb Jim Perrin jper...@centos.org: If you use the EPEL repository, please read https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/epel-announce/2014-November/32.html TL;DR: There are a large number of orphaned/unmaintained packages in EPEL across the 5, 6, and 7 trees.

Re: [CentOS] CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL

2014-11-04 Thread Brian Bernard
Is there a command in yum where you can sort packages by repository and hence compare them with the lists you've provided? Brian Bernard On Nov 4, 2014 8:14 AM, Leon Fauster leonfaus...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 04.11.2014 um 13:43 schrieb Jim Perrin jper...@centos.org: If you use the EPEL

Re: [CentOS] CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL

2014-11-04 Thread Hakan Can
On 11/04/2014 06:25 PM, Brian Bernard wrote: Is there a command in yum where you can sort packages by repository and hence compare them with the lists you've provided? Hi Brien, We use rpm. listing all packages not in base repo, rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME} %{VENDOR}\n' |grep -v CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL

2014-11-04 Thread Malcolm
To list installed packages from a repo : yumdb search from_repo repo_id Regards Mal On 05/11/14 03:51, Hakan Can wrote: On 11/04/2014 06:25 PM, Brian Bernard wrote: Is there a command in yum where you can sort packages by repository and hence compare them with the lists you've provided?

Re: [CentOS] CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL

2014-11-04 Thread Brian Bernard
Thank you. Brian On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Malcolm fragbai...@gmail.com wrote: To list installed packages from a repo : yumdb search from_repo repo_id Regards Mal On 05/11/14 03:51, Hakan Can wrote: On 11/04/2014 06:25 PM, Brian Bernard wrote: Is there a command in yum

Re: [CentOS] CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL

2014-11-04 Thread Michael Schumacher
Hi, Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 1:43:50 PM, you wrote: TL;DR: There are a large number of orphaned/unmaintained packages in EPEL across the 5, 6, and 7 trees. These packages will be removed from EPEL unless they are picked up by a packager. Packages that *depend* on an orphaned package will