RFC: EOL of mediawiki from EL-4, EL-5, EL-6

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 15:49, Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 03:33:43PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 14:27, Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 01:53:32PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> >> I plan to EOL mediawiki for the EPEL releases for EL-4,5,6 due to
>> >> packaging newer ones using mediawiki114,mediawiki115, mediawiki116.
>> >>
>> >> There are several ways I can do this:
>> >>
>> >> 1) change mediawiki114 to replace mediawiki. Pros would allow people
>> >> to keep a package on their system. COns most likely will break due to
>> >> linking and changes in package.
>> >>
>> >> 2) put out a final mediawiki package with a "Please dont use." in
>> >> README and %description.
>> >>
>> >> 3) just remove from system.
>> >>
>> >> I need input and help on getting this done.
>> >>
>> >> Thankyou.
>> >
>> > I like option #1.  Are you tracking this in a bugzilla somewhere?  I
>> > would be happy to "help" insofar as testing this new package (the
>> > upgrade side-effects mainly).
>>
>> I have tried a couple of times to do #1. However they all ended up
>> being very very delicate in that they only worked with a default
>> install. As soon as I tried to make it work in a non-default way I
>> ended up with broken links and a lot of hand fixing that would be
>> needed either way.
>>
>> At this point my best step is to parallel install mediwiki114 and
>> mediawiki. Go through your config files and symbolic links and point
>> to mediawiki114. Test. Repeat.
>
> Ah.  In light of your experiences then, it sounds like the parallel
> install is the way to go -- and then maybe down the road retire the
> parent mediawiki package after people have had a chance to adopt
> mediawiki114 and update their configurations.
>
>>
>> The second issue is that they are not 1:1 matches. I decided not to
>> implement Axil's multihome patch because upstream had no interest in
>> it and they pointed out it needed a more work for it to work well (for
>> their definition of well). I am a) not a PHP developer and b) full up
>> on other jobs so decided to take it out and implement a minimal patch
>> set to deal with upstreams packaging style.
>
> All makes sense to me.
>
> Do you have a bz# where you're tracking this so I could join to
> collaborate on testing?  Alternately, I'll just keep an eye out for
> mediawiki114 packages to show up in epel-testing.
>

The package was accepted and the mediawiki114 packages went into
testing a while ago. I don't have any other bugzilla's involved

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633081
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633082
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633085

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