[CentOS-devel] FreeIPA / Samba / SSSD - new packages same problems

Fri Nov 25 12:31:34 UTC 2022
Alexander Bokovoy <abokovoy at redhat.com>

On pe, 25 marras 2022, Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel wrote:
>Am 25.11.22 um 12:26 schrieb Alexander Bokovoy:
>>On pe, 25 marras 2022, lejeczek via CentOS-devel wrote:
>>>Hi gents.
>>>
>>>It seems this has been a routine - each time when either sssd or 
>>>Samba or FreeIPA gets new releases (with freeIPA deployed) there 
>>>will be 'rpm' conflicts:
>>
>>Errors do happen in development branches.
>>
>>CentOS 8 Stream process is backwards and does not allow to properly
>>inherit build sequence for rebases that require side-tag use.
>>
>>I have wrote a warning on FreeIPA mailing list yesterday:
>>https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org/thread/KXDC65B3LUAHQIL3YVH5UWJYH7O3TP7T/
>>
>>None of the developers involved in those packages' maintenance have any
>>influence at how CentOS 8 Stream packages built and composed. We can
>>suggest certain things but ultimately it is outside of our control. It
>>is better with CentOS 9 Stream process but even that does not help when
>>public holidays are involved, like Thanksgiving in US right now -- we
>>simply have no reach to people who could do anything to composes.
>>
>>Please refrain from an upgrade until next week.
>>
>
>
>Even with such constrains / dependencies, that always are in such 
>complex sociotechnical-systems, one thing I would appreciate;
>in general more communication. Just an example (happens recurrently also
>in other corners) your mail never reached the CentOS list IIRC. So, 
>like a marketing campaign I would suggest to spread the word into all 
>kind of channels, to be sure that communication also happens outside 
>of the own silo, :-).

That's a fair ask, sorry for not cross-posting it here yesterday when I
got to know about the problem.




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/ Alexander Bokovoy
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Security / Identity Management Engineering
Red Hat Limited, Finland