Re: Proposal for dropping packages from ovirt rpm repositories

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:40:33AM +0100, Sandro Bonazzola wrote: > Hi, > I think that having the same package on different repositories must be avoided. > > The last python-cpopen-1.3 release broke repository closure of ovirt-stable which provides a vdsm release still requiring vdsm-python-cpopen. > I think that since vdsm and other packages are delivered in Fedora repositories we should not deliver them in ovirt repositories. > An example is: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056470 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056464 > > python-cpopen affects both Fedora and oVirt repositories, hitting 2 different products. > but other packages are handled as vdsm. > So i suggest to keep just .tar.gz files on ovirt site for allowing fedora packagers to build referencing the source tarball and drop at all any > package already provided by Fedora from ovirt site. > > Comments as always are welcome. Only problem with this is that epel would not agree to ship the el6 build of rpm - we'd need to carry it on our own.

Dan.