Bug 1249885

Summary:	Avrdude Package for EPEL 7 Does Not Exist
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Sean Malloy <spinelli85>
Component:	avrdude	Assignee:	Hans Ulrich Niedermann <rhbugs>
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Description Sean Malloy 2015-08-04 03:32:34 UTC

Description of problem:
A package for arvdude does not exist for EPEL 7.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
N/A

How reproducible:
Enabled EPEL 7 on a CentOS 7 machine. Try to install the avrdude package.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -i https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
2. yum install avrdude


Actual results:
Output from yum is "No package avrdude available"

Expected results:
The avrdude package is successfully installed.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Hans Ulrich Niedermann 2020-04-04 19:52:59 UTC

Someone would need to maintain EPEL branches, as I have no EL machines to test on.

Me just blindly going by the "if it compiles, it ships" motto for EPEL branches is not very helpful, especially as on EL the expectation is of much less breakage.

Comment 2 Harry Mallon 2020-05-15 14:33:18 UTC

AVRDude 5.11.1-4.el7 is availabel in EPEL7, this bug is old. However, there is no package available in EPEL 8.

It says here that giallu is the EPEL assignee for this?
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/avrdude/branches?branchname=master

Comment 3 Hans Ulrich Niedermann 2022-01-18 15:24:40 UTC

FTR, as epel7 already exists, I have requested epel8 and epel9 for avrdude:

epel8: https://pagure.io/releng/fedora-scm-requests/issue/41075
epel9: https://pagure.io/releng/fedora-scm-requests/issue/41076

Comment 4 Harry Mallon 2022-09-27 15:10:37 UTC

Now that the branches exist would it be possible to kick off a build for EPEL9?

Comment 5 Hans Ulrich Niedermann 2022-09-28 21:47:42 UTC

Good point.

BTW, would the many years old 6.4 release be preferable for the new epel branches, or the 7.0 release from 2022-05?

Comment 6 Harry Mallon 2022-09-28 22:31:12 UTC

According to the GitHub and the download page on here (http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/avrdude/) release 6.4 was only from 16th Dec 2021, so it's not super old. I successfully used 6.4 earlier (having borrowed a binary rpm from Fedora 35 to use on CentOS-Stream 9), so that works for me. v7.0 adds support for a lot of new devices which is definately a plus. I guess it makes sense for Fedora to always be ahead (or equal) to EPEL, so if EPEL9 moved to v7.0 then Fedora might want upgrading too?

There are arguments for each version and I personally see both as good options, so I dont really mind. :)

Comment 7 Fedora Admin user for bugzilla script actions 2022-11-28 12:08:59 UTC

This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.