I am an employee of Rackspace, we have been using this release-updated package (rebuilt internally, we used -6.3) after talking with Dell the day 7.5 came out and our Dell systems started breaking. We are successfully running 7.5 CentOS, Oracle Linux, and RHEL with an internal rebuild overriding the RH variant done, this same rebuild is working as well. https://access.redhat.com/support/cases/#/case/02075996
This package is updating rhel7 package. I don't think this belongs to epel7. Please bug rhel if there is bugs in rhel package - but this is against epel policy.
Bump release to be higher than RHEL 7.5 package until it can be fixed.
It's intentional. Many people have been bugging Red Hat and Dell to fix this. Red Hat refuses to remove their incomplete libsmbios package. Dell has stated that it's taking them longer than expected to fix their OMSA packages to work with the RHEL package. It's a mess. EPEL steering committee has agreed to make an exception to policy in this situation.
It is, but EPEL shipped a newer version, and then RHEL 7.5 shipped a higher release of that version. The RHEL version does not include the c++ interface that OMSA requires, and thus any Dell server with OMSA installed will fail to update to 7.5 (both RHEL and CentOS). The CentOS release notes suggest the workaround of excluding the new RHEL packages to update, but that is a manual step and problematic for large deployments and hosting providers. Bumping the EPEL release higher than the RHEL release in this update was agreed to be the least bad option.
This update has been submitted for testing by kevin.
Tested and working as expected.
I am an employee of Rackspace, we have been using this release-updated package (rebuilt internally, we used -6.3) after talking with Dell the day 7.5 came out and our Dell systems started breaking. We are successfully running 7.5 CentOS, Oracle Linux, and RHEL with an internal rebuild overriding the RH variant done, this same rebuild is working as well. https://access.redhat.com/support/cases/#/case/02075996
Works for me.
legit
This update has been pushed to testing.
This update has been submitted for batched by bodhi.
This update has been submitted for stable by bodhi.
This package is updating rhel7 package. I don't think this belongs to epel7. Please bug rhel if there is bugs in rhel package - but this is against epel policy.
@tis Did you read the update notes?
It's intentional. Many people have been bugging Red Hat and Dell to fix this. Red Hat refuses to remove their incomplete libsmbios package. Dell has stated that it's taking them longer than expected to fix their OMSA packages to work with the RHEL package. It's a mess. EPEL steering committee has agreed to make an exception to policy in this situation.
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2018-05-16/epel.2018-05-16-18.00.log.html from 18:03:43 to 18:27:48
Ok. I understand the reasoning - but if that's for OMSA package should really be provided by dell.
It is, but EPEL shipped a newer version, and then RHEL 7.5 shipped a higher release of that version. The RHEL version does not include the c++ interface that OMSA requires, and thus any Dell server with OMSA installed will fail to update to 7.5 (both RHEL and CentOS). The CentOS release notes suggest the workaround of excluding the new RHEL packages to update, but that is a manual step and problematic for large deployments and hosting providers. Bumping the EPEL release higher than the RHEL release in this update was agreed to be the least bad option.
This update has been pushed to stable.