On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 18:52, Randy Barlow <bowlofe...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Greetings! > > Fedora Infrastructure recently deployed Bodhi 4.0.0 to production, > which included quite a few backwards incompatible changes[0]. Some of > the changes have resulted in older Bodhi clients (less than 4.0.0) not > being compatible with the new version of the server. > > In Fedora, FESCo decided to allow the Bodhi 4.0.0 update to go to > Fedora 29 and 30, and for us to add a bodhi3 compat client package in > case there were any users counting on using the bodhi3 client with a > non-Fedora Bodhi server[1] (believe it or not, there are other Bodhi > deployments out there!) > > EPEL 7 currently has a fairly old Bodhi version (2.11.0). This version > is also not compatible with the Bodhi 4 server. > > What do you think about upgrading Bodhi in EPEL 7 as well? > > I think that since EL-7 has a lifetime until 2024, that it would be good to keep bodhi up2date as possible for as long as possible. > There are a few things I'd like to highlight for consideration here: > > * Bodhi 4 is Python 3 only. Bodhi 2 is Python 2 only. So, upgrading to > Bodhi 4 isn't just a switch to a newer Bodhi, it will also mean a > switch in Python versions. This will affect dependencies (there are a > few). > * I think we might be missing Python 3 dependencies for Bodhi 4. > I think we are missing a series for both this and other infrastructure applications. It would be good to get those into EPEL before trying to move onto bodhi. If for some reason python36-foo doesn't work.. then you know not to keep going down that path. > * It might be good to consider dropping the Bodhi server as we do this. > EPEL 7 has versions of some of Bodhi's server dependencies that are > too old for Bodhi 4. I *think* the client should be OK with the > client dependency versions, but of course you never know until you > try. > * Would we want to maintain a bodhi2 compat package for EPEL 7, > analagous to the bodhi3 compat package we made for Fedora? > * What about EPEL 6? It's still on Bodhi 0.9, and I have never seen or > worked on that codebase. Unfortunately, it has Python 2.6 and not any > verison of Python 3, to my knowledge. > > I would retire bodhi from EL6 if you are worried about any CVE or other items. Otherwise I would just leave it to 'bitrot' until EL6 is retired in 18 months. > Anything else you can think of? > > > [0] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/docs/user/release_notes.html#v4-0-0 > [1] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2137 > _______________________________________________ > 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://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- Stephen J Smoogen.
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