[EPEL-devel] Re: Bodhi 4 in EPEL 7
On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 18:52, Randy Barlow <bowlofeggs(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
Greetings!
Fedora Infrastructure recently deployed Bodhi 4.0.0 to production,
which included quite a few backwards incompatible changes[0]. Some of
the changes have resulted in older Bodhi clients (less than 4.0.0) not
being compatible with the new version of the server.
In Fedora, FESCo decided to allow the Bodhi 4.0.0 update to go to
Fedora 29 and 30, and for us to add a bodhi3 compat client package in
case there were any users counting on using the bodhi3 client with a
non-Fedora Bodhi server[1] (believe it or not, there are other Bodhi
deployments out there!)
EPEL 7 currently has a fairly old Bodhi version (2.11.0). This version
is also not compatible with the Bodhi 4 server.
What do you think about upgrading Bodhi in EPEL 7 as well?
I think that since EL-7 has a lifetime until 2024, that it would be good to
keep bodhi up2date as possible for as long as possible.
There are a few things I'd like to highlight for consideration
here:
* Bodhi 4 is Python 3 only. Bodhi 2 is Python 2 only. So, upgrading to
Bodhi 4 isn't just a switch to a newer Bodhi, it will also mean a
switch in Python versions. This will affect dependencies (there are a
few).
* I think we might be missing Python 3 dependencies for Bodhi 4.
I think we are missing a series for both this and other infrastructure
applications. It would be good to get those into EPEL before trying to move
onto bodhi. If for some reason python36-foo doesn't work.. then you know
not to keep going down that path.
* It might be good to consider dropping the Bodhi server as we do
this.
EPEL 7 has versions of some of Bodhi's server dependencies that are
too old for Bodhi 4. I *think* the client should be OK with the
client dependency versions, but of course you never know until you
try.
* Would we want to maintain a bodhi2 compat package for EPEL 7,
analagous to the bodhi3 compat package we made for Fedora?
* What about EPEL 6? It's still on Bodhi 0.9, and I have never seen or
worked on that codebase. Unfortunately, it has Python 2.6 and not any
verison of Python 3, to my knowledge.
I would retire bodhi from EL6 if you are worried about any CVE or other
items. Otherwise I would just leave it to 'bitrot' until EL6 is retired in
18 months.
Anything else you can think of?
[0] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/docs/user/release_notes.html#v4-0-0
[1] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2137
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