[CentOS-devel] Community build services and EPEL8

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 9:04 AM Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 09:43:20PM +0100, Phil Perry wrote:
> > >>The issue is .. they change the versions out and you then lose that
> > >>package.  next build it fails with the new one .. what do you do?  The
> > >>old package is no longer available anywhere.
> > >One thing that can help here is to not treat the EPEL maintainers as an
> > >opaque "they". It's actually people you can talk directly to, and who should
> > >have your concerns as a consumer in mind. You could even become a
> > >comaintainer of the package.
> > The issue here is not related to maintainers of a given package, but
> > rather one of EPEL policy whereby only the latest release of each
> > package is available in the repository. As Johnny correctly
>
> I disagree! The quote is "they change the versions out". If you're not ready
> for the version to be changed, coordinate with the maintainer. As I
> mentioned elsewhere, I hope that in the future with EPEL 8 with modularity
> enabled, you'd even have the option of having the old version available in
> parallel.
>

Keeping old versions around is more of a Bodhi problem. If it had an
option to keep old versions when it recomposed the EPEL repos, then
it'd be fine.


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