epel-announce October 2019

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Ending EPEL-7 aarch64 support in Fedora build system
by Stephen John Smoogen 08 Oct '19

08 Oct '19

We are sad to announce that we will be dropping the aarch64 release from EPEL-7 repository. The aarch64 has been built in Red Hat Enterprise Linux as an alternative architecture which was supported with different kernels and other libraries. With the release of RHEL-8.0, Red Hat has decided to not build a 7.7 release. This has been breaking builds in EPEL-7 which have been trying to get package versions and names which were upgraded in 7.7 for the ppc64le and x86_64 architectures. We have tried a couple of different hacks to make this work, and tried to pull in CentOS 7.7 aarch64 as a replacement OS. However, problems with how koji detects collisions and corrupted packages are triggered when file hashes between the noarch packages in RHEL and CentOS occur. At this point, we are going to have to end support for aarch64 in EPEL-7. If other sustainable solutions are possible in the future, we will re-evaluate and do what is needed to bring it back. -- Stephen J Smoogen.

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Attention: Removal of python36 from EPEL-7 on 2019-10-03
by Stephen John Smoogen 01 Oct '19

01 Oct '19

With the release of RHEL-7.7, many of the packages for python36 in EPEL were replicated in the release as python3-3.6 packages. The normal pattern when this is seen is to remove the packages from EPEL so that they do not cause problems. However, this did cause problems for users of CentOS-7 who did not have access to the newer packages. Two weeks ago, CentOS-7.7.1908 was released and should have flowed out to users as needed. So it is time to remove the following src.rpm packages from EPEL: python36-3.6.8-1.el7.src.rpm python3-setuptools-39.2.0-3.el7.src.rpm As they are duplicated by: python3-3.6.8-10.el7.src.rpm python3-setuptools-39.2.0-10.el7.src.rpm We will be removing the python packages on 2019-10-03 so that they should disappear during the repository compose on 2019-10-04. EPEL is a rolling release locked against the latest state of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux repositories. If you are using an older snapshot of RHEL or CentOS, you should sync down versions of the repository and lock particular versions for your use. -- Stephen J Smoogen.

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epel-announce October 2019