> 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).