On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, 01:26 Todd Zullinger, tmz@pobox.com wrote:
James Hogarth wrote:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, 00:59 Todd Zullinger, tmz@pobox.com wrote:
Red Hat announced today that Ansible was being deprecated from the extras channel. Their advice is that those who have "previously installed Ansible and its dependencies from the Extras channel are advised to enable and update from the Ansible Engine channel, or uninstall the packages as future errata will not be provided from the Extras channel."
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1075
Given that, I believe it is reasonable to see ansible return to EPEL. This was discussed in previous EPEL meetings a bit, so I'm sure it was known to at least some of the folks involved.
Cheers for the info.
It wasn't mentioned on the devel list, I didn't see it in the 7.5 release notes and it was still in extras when I checked a short while ago.
In that case yes I agree it makes total sense to return to epel7
I wonder why they dropped it when the whole point of them bringing it in
to
begin with was for Satellite and Tower to have it in the standard RHEL repos.
Seems so pointless to have only had one release there!
Indeed, it was a bit strange. Perhaps someone with more insight into the rationale can comment. I have no particular knowledge of things, but maybe keeping a fast moving project like ansible in even the RHEL extras channel was a problem.
Maybe the plan with the move to the "Ansible Engine" channel is to work closer with subscribers on migrating from version to version. And non-subscribers can just follow it in EPEL.
I'd be interested in hearing more about the change, though I suspect those who know more either aren't on these lists or can't say more than Red Hat's advisory has already.
At this point, no offense to Nirik and the maintenance he does on the package, I'm actually tempted to just grab it from upstream directly at https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/rpm/
At least then I can get consistency with selection of stable, preview or nightly ...