On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 20:33, Paul Howarth <p...@city-fan.org> wrote: > > On Sat, 16 May 2020 20:23:35 +0200 > clime <cl...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > I am co-maintaining an epel-7 package (dist-git) and I wanted to add > > it to epel-8 too. But right now, it wouldn't install because one of > > the dependencies (moreutils) is newly in PowerTools repo > > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1833810). > > > > I assume that basically means I cannot depend on such package from an > > epel-8 package or at least I will solve it like this by removing the > > dependency. Something like this is a bit surprising, however. I didn't > > know a repo like that existed. > > You can safely depend on things in the PowerTools repo as it's expected > that EPEL-8 users will also use that repository: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F > > Looking at the BZ ticket, it seems you discovered that yourself.
I think in the end it is actually perl(IPC::Run) which is provided by PowerTools. The thing is that the yum error message doesn't say "Enable PowerTools to install this package". I am a long term epel user and I had no idea about PowerTools. clime > > Paul. > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
