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On martes, 28 de septiembre de 2021 14:43:50 (CEST) Stefan Bluhm wrote:
Carrying on the conversation under a new subject.
Because EPEL still breaks salt, AFAIK.
Yes, EPEL is definitely required. Salt is installed from the Uyuni:Master. EPEL does not provide salt. What is the breakage? I never noticed anything.
A conflict with python-zeromq. Maybe that's already fixed for EPEL8, but I can clearly remember we had it for EPEL7. Several issues were created, including https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/issues/3135
However if we require EPEL, are you sure we do not get any other unwanted dependencies that can cause problems?
pythonX-zeromq is not in EPEL8. The linked issue sounds interesting. There might be conflicts with zeromq itself as that is included. There must be (more or less) nice workarounds to get that sorted. For now, I have been using EPEL for my tests and haven't encountered any issues. Seems that testing needs to be extended. Let me also repeat the above use case at a (much) later time.
Previously we discussed picking/copying required packages from EPEL for a Uyuni release. Maybe this could still be an option although it sounds like some significant maintenance activity.
Do we have numbers or a list of the packages you are taking from EPEL as of today?
My strategy (for now) would be to keep EPEL running and fix any identified issues along the way.
For now it's OK, but the danger I see is that EPEL can work now, but can get a new package in the future (or a version bump) that breaks the server or the proxy. In the end EPEL is less restrictive than RHEL/CentOS/Alma/Rocky for such things :-)
@juliogonzalez/@mcalmer: On that note, is there any chance to enable Publishing of the AlmaLinux packages on Uyuni:Master? That way, I can get the required packages directly "from source".
OK, done. https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/Master/ AlmaLinux_8/ is available now. But IIRC I will need to disable publishig *and* wipe the repositories when I am going to promote the next Uyunui version. Otherwise the promotion mechanism doesn't work and we don't really want to bump to Stable now.
Best wishes,
Stefan
-- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez@suse.com