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.
(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.
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