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:
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.
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
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
Now that the branches exist would it be possible to kick off a build for EPEL9?
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?
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. :)
This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.