18:00:31 <smooge> #startmeeting EPEL (2017-08-23) 18:00:31 <zodbot> Meeting started Wed Nov 1 18:00:31 2017 UTC. The chair is smooge. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 18:00:31 <zodbot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 18:00:31 <zodbot> The meeting name has been set to 'epel_(2017-08-23)' 18:00:31 <smooge> #meetingname EPEL 18:00:31 <zodbot> The meeting name has been set to 'epel' 18:00:31 <smooge> #topic aloha 18:00:31 <smooge> #chair avij bstinson Evolution nirik smooge 18:00:31 <zodbot> Current chairs: Evolution avij bstinson nirik smooge 18:00:31 <smooge> #topic Announcements 18:00:54 <nirik> morning 18:01:03 <avij> hi 18:01:03 <smooge> hello all 18:01:15 <smooge> this will be a very short meeting as I forgot to send out an agenda 18:02:02 <smooge> ok the only item I have for today is the following. 18:02:02 <puiterwijk> Hello 18:02:22 <smooge> #info EPEL 6 and 7 directory layout changed due to updates in bodhi. 18:03:54 <smooge> Previously epel-6 and epel-7 had been special cased to have a directory layout different from current Fedora. This was causing problems in code paths and testing and so when the new release system was put in place.. EPEL-6 and EPEL-7 now match Fedora's directory layout 18:04:24 <smooge> this however will have caused problems for people who have been hardcoding various paths 18:04:46 <avij> they should not be doing that anyway 18:04:48 <smooge> or using tools outside of yum/reposync on getting packages from the repository 18:06:02 <smooge> people should not do a lot of things. As long as it doesn't hurt them they do it anyway. In this case the walking across the intersection while juggling finally hit the mac truck of progress 18:06:13 <smooge> or some such metaphor 18:07:00 <avij> I've been only following the CentOS forums, and I haven't heard of complaints in there. there was this one guy who complained on #epel. 18:07:01 <nirik> ha 18:07:02 <smooge> in anycase, I will be writing a blog to cover the change and letting mirrors know also as some people may not run with --delete so have multiple packages in places 18:07:28 <smooge> or they are using good old mirror.sh script 18:07:47 <puiterwijk> smooge: well, if they run without --delete, they likely want to retain the old versions of packages, so then this would... work for them? 18:08:47 <smooge> puiterwijk, if they use --delete but not with hardlinks.. then they have extra disk space issues. If they use the old ftp mirror scripts then they have packages with duplicates all over the place 18:09:03 <puiterwijk> Ah, I see. Okay 18:09:54 <smooge> and I am pretty sure there are people like that as I got asked last week why they couldn't ftp sync from the dl.fedoraproject.org anymore 18:10:14 <smooge> 8 years people. 8 fing years 18:11:04 <smooge> ok rant done 18:11:37 <smooge> anything else on this? 18:12:21 <avij> nope, seems to work ok 18:12:33 <smooge> I am actually amazed how quiet a transitition on the mirroring went. It used to be one of htose immediate hit the devel lists about the lack of humanity 18:13:18 <smooge> ok cool. thanks puiterwijk for all the work on getting bodhi deployed. My next set of questions will be on how to make bodhi compose a 'epel release' and updates :) 18:14:01 <smooge> #topic open floor 18:14:15 <smooge> ok if anyone has something for open floor this is it. 18:14:20 <smooge> otherwise we can call it 18:14:44 <avij> no open floor issues from me 18:14:49 <smooge> #endmeeting