On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 06:35:13AM -0500, Kaleb Keithley wrote:
> How is that different than just building them in EPEL and being done with
> it.
>
> Has something changed in the EPEL rules that would now allow us to ship
> packages that conflict with the packages in base RHEL or a RHEL product
> like RHGS (GlusterFS) or RHCS (Ceph)?
Yes -- this should be possible with modularity. You'd ship the conflicting
packages as an alternate stream. No default streams allowed, but people could
opt in. And presumably there could exist media where that stream is enabled
by default.
It almost certainly is possible with modularity, but that's a big chunk to bite off.
More than I have time to tackle at the moment I'm afraid. AFAIK Niels (ndevos, my "partner" for Gluster, and to a lesser extent NFS-Ganesha) has no desire, or time, to do anything with modularization.
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Kaleb