Can EPEL7 packages depend on Software Collections packages?
If not, is there any plan to have a separate repository for that?
On 26 August 2014 15:01, Eric Smith spacewar@gmail.com wrote:
Can EPEL7 packages depend on Software Collections packages?
No they can not. Every package we ship in EPEL must only rely on what is shipped in either EPEL or base RHEL (or CentOS as it doesn't have a ton of confusing channels).
If not, is there any plan to have a separate repository for that?
Not at this time. Software Collections aren't supported in the Fedora upstream yet and are not supported in the builders. When that changes, changes to what EPEL can support will be possible.
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
No they can not. Every package we ship in EPEL must only rely on what is shipped in either EPEL or base RHEL (or CentOS as it doesn't have a ton of confusing channels).
OK. I suppose I should ask the collections people whether a collection package for EL is allowed to depend on EPEL.
Thanks!
On 08/26/2014 11:07 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
No they can not. Every package we ship in EPEL must only rely on what is shipped in either EPEL or base RHEL (or CentOS as it doesn't have a ton of confusing channels).
OK. I suppose I should ask the collections people whether a collection package for EL is allowed to depend on EPEL.
the idea with SCL is that you extend a collection, or inherit another one by building your own collection. Its a oneway street, once you are in the scl lands.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
On 08/26/2014 11:07 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com
wrote:
No they can not. Every package we ship in EPEL must only rely on what is shipped in either EPEL or base RHEL (or CentOS as it doesn't have a ton
of
confusing channels).
OK. I suppose I should ask the collections people whether a collection package for EL is allowed to depend on EPEL.
the idea with SCL is that you extend a collection, or inherit another one by building your own collection. Its a oneway street, once you are in the scl lands.
It depends on if you're talking about making an SCL or using one (like devtoolset). I previously asked about the concept of using devtoolset in particular ( https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/epel-devel/2013-September/008737.h... ) and think that it would be nice because it would allow for support of packages that can't be built with gcc 4.4 that comes with EL.
One way to accomplish this would be to have an EPEL-DT repo that was built with the newer version of gcc that comes with devtoolset. It would be nice because it would allow developers to make use of it but wouldn't necessarily require that the user have a devtoolset subscription (which is my understanding of how devtoolset was meant to be used).
Dave
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