[CentOS-devel] NGINX cannot be installed. Possible to include libunwind in CentOS-Base?

On 10 decembrie 2015 09:47:00 EET, Jamie Nguyen <j at jamielinux.com> wrote:
>On 09/12/15 22:28, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> This is a terrible solution. Its a kludge for the best way, and just
>> highlights the dire need for EPEL to be better integrated into the
>> CentOS side of things.
>
>Actually, I see this as a lack of communication between RHEL and EPEL,
>so this problem could have been avoided with better integration between
>RHEL and EPEL (not CentOS and EPEL, though of course that would be
>great
>too).
>
>I don't think that the EPEL libunwind maintainer was aware that RHEL
>was
>intending to ship their own libunwind. RHEL libunwind-1.1-5 was
>committed in June in order to "beat" EPEL libunwind-1.1-3 (and the RHEL
>maintainer told me that their internal review process *does* include a
>check for EPEL upgrade path). However, later the EPEL maintainer built
>libunwind-1.1-10 and this is where the problems began.
>
>If the EPEL maintainer had been aware of RHEL's libunwind package, he
>could have chosen "Release: 3%{?dist}.1" and "Release: 3%{?dist}.2"
>etc.
>for future builds on EPEL to avoid conflicting with RHEL/CentOS. EPEL
>wouldn't have needed to retire libunwind so quickly (ie, retire only
>after CentOS 7.2 is released), and we wouldn't have had this problem at
>all.
>
>Kind regards,
>Jamie


You are perfectly right here on all points. Unfortunately RH , short of providing access to beta to the customers, never announces in advance what packages will overlap with EPEL