On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 8:09 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
Not for long. RHEL 7.7 is going to include Python 3 in the base: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1639030 And even if it wasn't, mock only exists in EPEL anyway, so we can consider EPEL dependencies for mock itself. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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
