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[Package Request] - libfaketime #748

Open alecrevangelista opened 1 month ago

alecrevangelista commented 1 month ago

Request for libfaketime in AL2023.

Original request below:

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. A few pacakges I've been using in AL2 include monkeysphere systemd-219-78 sudo initscripts libfaketime -- all of which come from EPEL.

Describe the solution you'd like Any way to install these, or have EPEL support in AL2023?

Describe alternatives you've considered None

daniejstriata commented 1 month ago

what are the specific packages you need? Do you know you can build packages in Fedora COPR and in doing so create a repo that can contain all the packages you explicitly need? I created one here: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/faramirza/al2023

stewartsmith commented 1 month ago

The monkeysphere package has been unmaintained in Fedora for a significant amount of time (see https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/monkeysphere ), and the original URL to the project page is a domain name that no longer exists. Looking at Debian (see https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/monkeysphere ) this seems to have been the case since at least as far back as 2021. The most recent commits I could find are 5 years ago. I think it is safe to say that this package is unmaintained upstream and has been for a long time. It is not something we would look to include in Amazon Linux.

systemd is present in Amazon Linux 2023. AL2023 comes with a newer version of systemd (252) than AL2 (219). Is there something specific that the AL2 version has that has been deprecated or removed in the AL2023 version?

sudo is also present in Amazon Linux 2023.

initscripts is also present in Amazon Linux 2023

The only remaining package listed is libfaketime. In order to track that request, I'll rename the title of this issue and make a small edit to the description.

stewartsmith commented 1 month ago

r.e. EPEL and AL2023: EPEL is part of the Fedora Project, and builds Extra Packages for RHEL, and thus is also largely compatible with distros very close to RHEL. Amazon Linux 2023 is not a clone of any other Linux distribution, so packages must be built for it.

The EPEL SIG in Fedora is where volunteers work to build EPEL. The Fedora Project is an open source project, and individuals either volunteer or a paid to work on it. Anyone can step up and be a contributor.