[CentOS] [OT] EPEL update?

[Tony Molloy]

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.
> > > > 
> > > > > 
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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.
> > 
> > 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
> 
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Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie>
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