On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 12:06:45PM +0000, Nick Howitt wrote:

Hello Richard,

I am using ClearOS7 (a Centos 7 derivative which also uses EPEL) and am using various packages in the EPEL repository. I am interested in seeing python3-libguestfs added to EPEL in order to use wok-3.0.0 and kimchi-3.0.0.

Would it be possible for you to maintain the package in EPEL? If not do you know of a maintainer who could help you with it? While EPEL is more conservative in package maintenance, it does allow for updates to later versions when needed.

I've no objection to adding it to EPEL 7, but there could be some technical difficulties. We distribute libguestfs 1.40.2 in RHEL 7.7 (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1621895). This has a Python 2 subpackage called python-libguestfs. So you'd have to add python3-libguestfs as a new package in EPEL 7. It's possible to package only the Python bindings as an RPM although I don't know anyone who has actually done it so far. Note also there is a python3-libguestfs package shipped in RHEL 8+ so we'd have to be careful not to ship a higher NVR number than that package. Currently it's python3-libguestfs-1.40.2-20.module+el8.2.0+5433+9e1420c8

If you are not interested in EPEL or don't feel like you have the time to put your packages into EPEL, the EPEL project would like to request that a co-maintainer who is a part of EPEL be added to your packages.

The EPEL team appreciate your help with EPEL.

Please suggest a maintainer. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v