Final 503 addendum

mirrorlist 503's for 2019

This is a graphical shape of the amount of 503's we have had in 2019. The earlier large growth in January/February have dropped down to just one web-server which is probably underpowered to run containers.  We will look at taking it out of circulation in the coming weeks.

EPEL: Python34->Python36 Move Happening (Currently in EPEL-testing)

Over the last 5 days, Troy Dawson, Jeroen van Meeuwen, Carl W George,  and several helpers have gotten nearly all of the python34 packages moves over to python36 in EPEL-7.  They are being included in 6 Bodhi pushes because of a limitation in Bodhi for the text size of packages in an include.

The current day for these package groups to move into EPEL regular is April 2nd. We would like to have all tests we find in the next week or so also added so that the updates can occur in a large group without too much breakage.


https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-f2d195dada
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-9e9f81e581
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-0d62608bce
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-5be892b745
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-0f4cca7837
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-ed3564d906

Please heavily test them by doing the following:

Stage 1 Testing

1. Install RHEL, CentOS, or Scientific Linux 7 onto a TEST system.
2. Install or enable the EPEL repository for this system
3. Install various packages you would normally use
4. yum --enablerepo=epel-testing update
5. Report problems to epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Stage 2 Testing

1. Check for any updated testing instructions on this blog or EPEL-devel list.
2. Install RHEL, CentOS, or Scientific Linux 7 onto a TEST system.
3. Install or enable the EPEL repository for this system
4. yum install python34
5. yum --enablerepo=epel-testing update
6. Report problems to epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Stage 3 Testing

1. Check for any updated testing instructions on this blog or EPEL-devel list.
2. Install RHEL, CentOS, or Scientific Linux 7 onto a TEST system.
3. Install or enable the EPEL repository for this system
4. yum install python36
5. yum --enablerepo=epel-testing update
6. Report problems to epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

This should cover the three most common scenarios. Other scenarios exist and will require some sort of intervention to work around. We will outline them as they come up.

Many Many Thanks go to Troy, Jeroen, Carl, and the many people on the python team who made a copr and did many of the initial patches to make this possible.