On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 12:56 -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 12:18, Richard <lists-centos at listmail.innovate. > net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Date: Tuesday, December 04, 2018 17:08:52 +0000 > > > From: Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie> > > > > > > On Mon, 2018-12-03 at 07:44 -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 06:00, isdtor <isdtor at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > OT for this list, but maybe I can get some pointers - how > > > > > hard is > > > > > it to get some packages updated in EPEL? The project web site > > > > > sends you from link to link, and the ML web interface is > > > > > horrible. No interest here to become a package maintainer or > > > > > regular contributor. > > > > > > > > > > > > > If you have interest in being a package maintainer or regular > > > > contributor it can be very hard to get packages updated. EPEL > > > > is > > > > trying to mainly deal with people who want long term supported > > > > package > > > > sets with limited manpower to do so. > > > > > > > > > I have taken it upon myself to rebuild MATE from Fedora 29, > > > > > seeing that the current EPEL-7 packages are four revisions > > > > > behind. Also updated a few packages to their latest upstream > > > > > version. > > > > > > > > If you are needing the latest upstream versions... I would say > > > > you > > > > are > > > > probably going to need to maintain these things yourself. As > > > > much > > > > as you want/need the latest MATE or some other item there are > > > > other > > > > people who don't and EPEL package maintainers can't satisfy > > > > both > > > > demands. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > CentOS mailing list > > > > > CentOS at centos.org > > > > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The problem is that the current version of Mate in the EPEL repos > > > prevents updating from 7.5 to 7.6. There is a dependency problem > > > with libgtop. > > > > > > For example trying to update marco gives you. > > > > > > Resolving Dependencies > > > --> Running transaction check > > > ---> Package marco.x86_64 0:1.16.1-3.el7 will be installed > > > --> Processing Dependency: libgtop-2.0.so.10()(64bit) for > > > package: > > > marco-1.16.1-3.el7.x86_64 > > > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > > > Error: Package: marco-1.16.1-3.el7.x86_64 (epel) > > > Requires: libgtop-2.0.so.10()(64bit) > > > You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem > > > > > > The same dependency holds for several mate packages. > > > > > > So either hold back on the update until mate is updated or build > > > it > > > yourself are the choices.. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Tony. > > > > The epel-testing repo resolves these dependencies, so include it > > when > > updating and things should be ok -- I just updated a mate desktop > > system with no issues (it pulled about half a dozen items from > > -testing). > > > The maintainer of the Mate packages did not push the updated packages > to EPEL until after CentOS-7.6 was out because he did not want to > break 7.5 users. Now that 7.6.1810 is released, it should get > promoted > to epel in the next couple of days. > > Great, thanks. Tony > -- Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie> Home