Bug 2196398

Summary:	ara: does not install (epel8)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Carl George 🎩 <carl>
Component:	ara	Assignee:	David Moreau-Simard <moi>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Carl George 🎩 2023-05-09 01:35:01 UTC

Description of problem:
ara does not install from EPEL 8.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ara-1.5.3-1.el8


How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf install ara


Actual results:
Error: 
 Problem: package ara-1.5.3-1.el8.noarch requires python3-ara = 1.5.3-1.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - nothing provides python3-cliff needed by python3-ara-1.5.3-1.el8.noarch
  - nothing provides python3.6dist(cliff) needed by python3-ara-1.5.3-1.el8.noarch


Expected results:
successful installation


Additional info:
If you can't get the dependencies added to make this installable, please retire it from epel8.  Having an uninstallable package is worse than the package not being present at all.

Comment 1 Carl George 🎩 2025-03-03 02:31:04 UTC

Do you have interest in resolving this or would it be better to just retire the package from EPEL 8?  Adding python3-cliff is going to require adding two other packages.  Not an insurmountable task, but it would be quicker to just remove this uninstallable package from the repos.

Comment 2 David Moreau-Simard 2025-03-13 02:39:42 UTC

Hi,

Once upon a time I got stumped on an epel8 issue and it just kind of remained stuck there, sorry: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ara/pull-request/24

I am able to continue maintaining the package for fedora but I do not have the bandwidth (or use case at this time) for the package in epel8 and beyond.
I do not object to retiring the package but if someone wants to do the work that is fine too.

Comment 3 Carl George 🎩 2025-04-11 07:43:23 UTC

Let's retire the epel8 branch then, if someone wants to pick this back up the branch can be unretired.

Comment 4 Carl George 🎩 2025-04-11 07:49:04 UTC

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ara/c/a83057077c2f987ca01ed3620744349cf970a23c?branch=epel8