On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Avram Lubkin
<aviso(a)rockhopper.net> wrote:
>
> So, a package I help maintain, python-dns is now provided by Red Hat. So I
> thought, "OK, I'll still build the python34 package to help in that
effort".
> But the problem with that is, per the EPEL 7 in Python 3 Plan Draft (1), if
> Red Hat provides the package, the SRPM can't use the same name. I can see
> the merit there. The problem is that in Fedora, a SRPM name needs to match
> the git repo name. So, yes, I could ask for a python3-dns package to be
> setup, but that creates two problems. The first, keeping the EPEL-only repo
> in sync with the main repo. The second, Differentiating between the python3
> package for Fedora which is in the python-dns git repo and the python3
> package for EPEL which, according to the guideline, would be in python3-dns.
>
> Ideally, I'd be able to maintain everything in the main git repo and use one
> spec file cloned from master. That's not too difficult except the Fedora
> build system won't build a package if it can't find the package (based on
> the SRPM name) in the database.
>
> I don't see a clean solution which makes me very hesitant to preemptively
> put out python34-dns for EPEL7. Which is part of the whole problem with
> python34 on EL7, there are no packages. If you build it, they will come,
> otherwise everyone stands around complaining it's not built.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Avram
>
> 1:
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bkabrda/EPEL7_Python3#Packaging_Paral...
>
Couldn't you just disable the python2 module build for EPEL7? That
should eliminate the conflict.
The python2 module is built in RHEL/CentOS and not in EPEL so he can't
disable it. The only way currently it can be 'built' for EL-7 is to
put it in the python3-dns name and do the review...
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