On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, 01:13 James Hogarth, <james.hoga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, 00:59 Todd Zullinger, <t...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> James Hogarth wrote: >> > I was under the impression that as of 2.4.0 in EL7 we removed ansible >> > from EPEL7 since Red Hat included it in their extras repo, and EPEL >> > policy is not to conflict. >> > >> > I was surprised just now to see ansible 2.5.0 on a test centos system, >> > when it wasn't in extras, and on a little bit of a search found: >> > >> > https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-7ef392255b >> > >> > Of course this is a bit of an issue for CentOS/RHEL users that have >> > need for the Red Hat ansible as they have been upgraded, and RH will >> > need to epoch bump (or release 2.5.1 and we pull this from EPEL7 then) >> > to ensure they get it from the right repo. >> > >> > With a branch retirement shouldn't this have been blocked in koji? >> >> Red Hat announced today that Ansible was being deprecated >> from the extras channel. Their advice is that those who >> have "previously installed Ansible and its dependencies from >> the Extras channel are advised to enable and update from the >> Ansible Engine channel, or uninstall the packages as future >> errata will not be provided from the Extras channel." >> >> https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1075 >> >> Given that, I believe it is reasonable to see ansible return >> to EPEL. This was discussed in previous EPEL meetings a >> bit, so I'm sure it was known to at least some of the folks >> involved. >> > > Cheers for the info. > > It wasn't mentioned on the devel list, I didn't see it in the 7.5 release > notes and it was still in extras when I checked a short while ago. > > In that case yes I agree it makes total sense to return to epel7 > > I wonder why they dropped it when the whole point of them bringing it in > to begin with was for Satellite and Tower to have it in the standard RHEL > repos. > > Seems so pointless to have only had one release there! > > And having read the bugzilla entry now... they moved it to its own product channel that all RHEL subscribers have access to... Again this feels so very pointless. >
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