[oi-dev] Can I still install older perl and python?

[Gordon Ross]

I'm not saying you have to keep building and delivering it,
but if the packaging system would not force me to remove
such older packages, that would have made my life easier.


On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> wrote:
> On 05/12/17 04:40 PM, Gordon Ross wrote:
>>
>> Well, when a package is made "obsolete" by another (newer) one, we're
>> telling the packaging system that the newer one is a compatible
>> replacement for the older one, right?  In this case, that's not true.
>> Python 2.7 is not a compatible replacement for Python 2.6.  With it
>> marked obsolete, IPS actually makes it difficult to install the older
>> version along side.  I think that's a mistake.
>>
>> Would it not have been enough to remove Python 2.6 from the userland
>> consolidation?
>> (so it's only installed if I actually ask for it?)
>>
>> Disappointed...
>>
>
> The issue is with old systems. We actually want to remove it from old
> installations, as it's EOLed and not maintained. userland-incorporation is
> not related to what packages are installed. Delivering python 2.6 in 2017?
> Who does do it?
> --
> Best regards,
> Alexander Pyhalov,
> system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department