On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 5:17 AM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 26. 04. 19 3:08, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 3:20 PM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> > >> On 25. 04. 19 20:35, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >>> > How much is going to be needed for "mock" to still work for older > >>> > operating systems? > >>> > >>> I'm confused. How is the change relevant for mock? I think I'm > >>> missing some > >>> pieces of the thought process here, could you please elaborate on > >>> that? > >>> > >>> > >>> In the past, changes where old versions of python were no longer > >>> supported in > >>> Fedora, then newer versions of mock/etc became dead in older OS's like > >>> RHEL-5's > >>> python24 and RHEL-6's python26. This would make compiling packages for > >>> certain > >>> versions of the OS impossible because the parent operating system didn't > >>> have a > >>> version of python it could use and you couldn't use newer source code on > >>> the > >>> older os. > >>> > >>> The question is moot because you are the wrong person to ask. The person > >>> to ask > >>> is the owner of mock and I expect the answer will be... I don't have time > >>> to > >>> support N versions of python but you have the source code.. so do it > >>> yourself. > >>> [Probably nicer than that.. but the general effect.] > >> > >> mock in EPEL 6 is already "dead" in that matter: > >> > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694159 > >> > >> mock in EPEL 7 can run on Python 3.6: > >> > >> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mock/pull-request/6 > > > > Which could make sense, but makes mock more awkward to install. > > How is that more awkward? The installation would still be be `yum install > epel-release && yum install mock`.
It brings in a distinct scripting language that is not part of the commercially supported base OS and makes the OS image for the server with mick installed notably larger. It's not *outrageous*, but it branches the tools for mock further from the base python on older, RHEL 7 systems. It adds support and places even more commoercial grade support on the EPEL repository.packages. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
