I am building a new workstation based on EL8 now. As someone else here mentioned, the raw EL8 distribution is unusable as a workstation. Therefore I am building lot of additional packages. Today I came across a problem with a custom package with an Epoch version, that kills the yum/dnf update process (it tries to find a "best" package etc.). My actually question; is the RPM Epoch stanza obsolete now (for EL8)? I remember that they also started to delete Groups categories ... -- LF
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 18:08, Leon Fauster via CentOS <centos at centos.org> wrote:> I am building a new workstation based on EL8 now. As someone else here > mentioned, the raw EL8 distribution > is unusable as a workstation. Therefore I am building lot of additional > packages. Today I came across a problem > with a custom package with an Epoch version, that kills the yum/dnf update > process (it tries to find a "best" > package etc.). My actually question; is the RPM Epoch stanza obsolete now > (for EL8)? I remember that they also > started to delete Groups categories ... > >Epoch still exists and is used.. but is now not the top dog in all transactions. What exactly is the package and what is it trying to 'replace'? When I have run into this.. it is usually a modular package which is installed or available and dnf/yum says 'cant replace X with Y'> -- > LF > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Stephen J Smoogen.
Am 09.07.2019 um 01:06 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>:>> >> On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 18:08, Leon Fauster via CentOS <centos at centos.org> wrote: >> I am building a new workstation based on EL8 now. As someone else here mentioned, the raw EL8 distribution >> is unusable as a workstation. Therefore I am building lot of additional packages. Today I came across a problem >> with a custom package with an Epoch version, that kills the yum/dnf update process (it tries to find a "best" >> package etc.). My actually question; is the RPM Epoch stanza obsolete now (for EL8)? I remember that they also >> started to delete Groups categories ... >> > > Epoch still exists and is used.. but is now not the top dog in all transactions. > What exactly is the package and what is it trying to 'replace'? > > When I have run into this.. it is usually a modular package which is installed or > available and dnf/yum says 'cant replace X with Y'I wanted to force our rebuilded package (that include some "desktop" fixes) to be installed. The added Epoch got in the way of dnf and also "dnf --nobest" didn't help to resolve it. Just to make it efficient I took the shortcut and useded a %{dist}.1 instead of the Epoch stanza. But good to known that its still valid and with more time I will check the root cause of my former approach ... thanks. -- LF