[CentOS] [OT] EPEL update?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 12:18, Richard <lists-centos at listmail.innovate.net> wrote:
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> > Date: Tuesday, December 04, 2018 17:08:52 +0000
> > From: Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie>
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> > 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:
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> >> > 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.
> >>
> >> >
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> >>
> >>
> >
> > 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.
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> 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.



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.