Bug 569616 - Qemu in EPEL-5 over-rides RHEL-AP packages
Summary: Qemu in EPEL-5 over-rides RHEL-AP packages
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: qemu
Version: el5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Rahul Sundaram
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-03-01 20:48 UTC by Stephen John Smoogen
Modified: 2017-04-06 10:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-04-06 10:37:35 UTC
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Description Stephen John Smoogen 2010-03-01 20:48:04 UTC
Description of problem:

Ok we have a report that qemu-img overwrites kvm-qemu-img in RHEL-AP. Normally we would block this package from the EPEL build system, but this may cause breakage for other items in EPEL so we need to work on a plan of what to do.

Please email the list epel-devel-list on what projects would be affected by blocking this so that we can move forward. Thank you.

Comment 1 Lubomir Rintel 2010-03-05 09:36:39 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> Ok we have a report that qemu-img overwrites kvm-qemu-img in RHEL-AP. Normally
> we would block this package from the EPEL build system, but this may cause
> breakage for other items in EPEL so we need to work on a plan of what to do.

This really depends on what Red Hat can do with the package. I see these options:
1.) Red Hat moves the qemu-img tool the the OS base and enables it for all architectures, blocking the package from EPEL
2.) Red Hat moves the kvm-qemu-img package of AP to use alternatives mechanism, and so does EPEL
3.) ExcludeArch x86_64 in EPEL and don't care about x86_64 RHELs w/o kvm-qemu-img (I don't really know if AP has to be purchased separately to RHEL?)

> Please email the list epel-devel-list on what projects would be
> affected by blocking this so that we can move forward. Thank you.    

Though I am not aware of any project that would use that, blocking this would affect end-users (such as me) that use the tool directly.

Also, I'd prefer if we used just a single communication channel here, if you don't mind.

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2017-04-06 10:37:35 UTC
Fedora EPEL 5 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2017-03-31. Fedora EPEL 5
is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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