18:00:20 <nirik> #startmeeting EPEL
18:00:20 <zodbot> Meeting started Wed Sep 11 18:00:20 2019 UTC.
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18:00:20 <nirik> #meetingname epel
18:00:20 <zodbot> The meeting name has been set to 'epel'
18:00:20 <nirik> #chair nirik smooge Evolution bstinson pgreco tdawson
18:00:20 <nirik> #topic booting...
18:00:20 <zodbot> Current chairs: Evolution bstinson nirik pgreco smooge tdawson
18:00:29 <nirik> who all is around for a quick epel meeting?
18:00:44 <bcotton> .hello2
18:00:45 <zodbot> bcotton: bcotton 'Ben Cotton' <bcotton@redhat.com>
18:00:49 <pgreco> I'm here
18:00:50 <carlwgeorge> .hello2
18:00:51 <zodbot> carlwgeorge: carlwgeorge 'None' <carl@george.computer>
18:00:58 <avij> .hello2
18:00:59 <zodbot> avij: avij 'Anssi Johansson' <rhbugs@miuku.net>
18:01:07 * bstinson is here
18:01:08 <tdawson> .hello2
18:01:09 <zodbot> tdawson: tdawson 'None' <tdawson@redhat.com>
18:01:23 <nirik> FYI, smooge is out this week on well deserved pto.
18:02:17 <nirik> ok, I didn't have much agenda, but lets go over the various releases in case anyone does...
18:02:24 <nirik> #topic epel6 status
18:02:38 <nirik> anything of note happening in epel6 world? or nice and quiet?
18:03:43 <nirik> I'll take that as quiet. ;)
18:03:49 <pgreco> next!
18:03:49 <nirik> #topic epel7 status
18:03:55 <avij> some packages would still need to be rebuilt for 7.7, such as qt-creator https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1748215 (there may be more)
18:03:59 <nirik> so, here we have the fate of aarch64...
18:04:31 <nirik> I need to try and do some testing in our stg setup on this. will try and do that this week...
18:04:35 <nirik> the CR repo is up right?
18:04:42 <nirik> (for centos7.7)
18:04:46 <pgreco> yes, with new kernel too
18:05:41 <nirik> nice. Is that the same as the other arches? or ?
18:05:53 <pgreco> 4.18.0 from el8
18:05:59 <nirik> #info need to test aarch64 builds against centos 7.7 in stg to see if that approach is viable
18:06:04 <nirik> ah, cool.
18:06:15 <pgreco> aarch64 used to have 4.14 kernel-alt (only for aarch64 and power9)
18:06:20 <nirik> yeah
18:06:21 <pgreco> rh discontinued that
18:06:38 <pgreco> so 4.18 was rebuilt for those two arches
18:06:56 <pgreco> so far, nothing exploded, and that is as far as I can go ;)
18:07:03 <orionp> avij: looks like qt-creator was just built https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1375115 - presumably an update is coming shortly
18:07:39 <avij> orionp: thanks for the info, and sorry for the distraction.
18:07:42 <nirik> we have some new aarch64 hw that we need to install... not sure what host os we want, but sounds like centos7 might be a good option.
18:08:48 <nirik> ok, anything else on 7?
18:09:08 <nirik> when centos 7.7 is out we need to also finally clean up the python stuff.
18:09:28 <nirik> #topic epel8
18:09:49 <nirik> I see people building and branching... :)
18:10:25 <nirik> Any big hangups or issues?
18:10:31 <pgreco> I've seen some reports of some failures branching, or something incomplete
18:10:44 <pgreco> is that known/common?
18:10:51 <tdawson> Ya, we've had that from the very beginning.
18:10:53 <nirik> there's a bug we should try and fix there.
18:11:04 <nirik> The problem is that pagure is set to disallow new branches by default.
18:11:25 <nirik> so, the package is added various places but when it tries to branch it's rejected.
18:11:39 <nirik> the admin tool needs to disable that, make the branch and enable it again.
18:11:57 <pgreco> ok, if it is known, and has a known solution, it is fine with me ;)
18:12:25 <orionp> I had to deal with that recently, and it was hard to figure out how to recover...
18:12:27 <nirik> we could document how users can fix it. That would help
18:12:40 <orionp> yes, that would be great
18:13:16 <nirik> I can try and do that, unless someone else would be willing. ;)
18:13:30 <nirik> basically it's go in and disable that option, push the branch and re-enable it.
18:14:20 <nirik> #info need to document failed branch creation workaround
18:14:29 * nirik adds to his todo
18:14:50 <nirik> anything else on epel8?
18:15:24 <nirik> #topic Open Floor
18:15:28 <nirik> anyone have other items?
18:15:58 <tdawson> Nothing from me
18:16:20 <nirik> tdawson: whats the state of kde in epel8?
18:16:38 <tdawson> It's released in playground.
18:16:53 <tdawson> Until we have modules, that's as far as it will be released.
18:16:59 <nirik> still missing some functionality due to those missing packages?
18:17:13 <tdawson> Ya ... but so far, nobody has complained about it.
18:17:19 * nirik was thinking of waiting for modules for Xfce too.
18:17:45 <tdawson> But, we've been very upfront about the missing pieces, so I guess if you know you need them, then you don't install it.
18:18:19 <nirik> yeah, I wonder if we shouldn't try and formalize the process around that some...
18:18:45 <nirik> I mean we have people file epel tickets and we try and bring it up internally, but there's no status or knowing what will happen...
18:19:04 <tdawson> I was also able to work around some things, so we were able to do okular, without all the formats.  and as for me, I haven't hit the missing formats yet, so I have nothing to complain about there.
18:19:32 <nirik> ok
18:19:57 <tdawson> About the missing packages?  Ya.  I haven't heard anything internally about those being fixed, or not being fixed.
18:20:08 <nirik> yeah.
18:20:26 <nirik> I wonder if some bugzilla bugs would not be better... but I guess we can see...
18:20:37 <nirik> anyhow, if nothing else, can close out in a minute.
18:21:33 <nirik> ok, thanks for coming everyone!
18:21:36 <nirik> #endmeeting