(01:45:26 PM) SDGathman: Should python-foo packages in EPEL Provide python2-foo ?
(01:46:09 PM) SDGathman: Otherwise, Fedora packages need extra %if logic to Require python-foo on EPEL, but python2-foo on Fedora.
(01:47:31 PM) tibbs: sdgathman: Of course they should.
(01:48:12 PM) tibbs: But then they are supposed to actually be called python2-foo and they can provide python-foo on EPEL via the already existing macros to do tha5t.
(01:50:45 PM) tibbs: Sadly there are 619 python-* packages in EPEL7 that I can see.  They should all be fixed.
(01:51:19 PM) SDGathman: Can I quote on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1647987 ?
(01:51:48 PM) SDGathman: Should I fix cjdns, or should python-networkx get fixed?  Or both?
(01:52:23 PM) tibbs: python-networkx was last updated in EPEL 4.5 years ago....
(01:52:59 PM) SDGathman: If I add the %if logic to require python-networkx, then it will have to get changed again when python-networkx is fixed.
(01:53:20 PM) SDGathman: Or should python2-networkx Provide python-networkx ?
(01:53:36 PM) tibbs: Yes, it should, via the existing mechanism for doing that.
(01:53:49 PM) SDGathman: Ok, then I will add the %if logic to cjdns.

While I'm at it, I think the python cjdns-admin API should be put in %{python_sitelib}.

Testing the new release on el7, python2-cjdns installs and works.  cjdns-graph installs, and begins to work, but gets a traceback:

$ graphStats
==================Graph Stats==================
Number of Nodes:  54
Number of Edges:  91
Maximum Shortest Path Length:  7
Average Shortest Path Length:  3.185 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/bin/graphStats", line 37, in <module>
    print 'Average Shortest Path Length: ',str(mean_h)[0:5], u'\u00B1',str(std_h)[0:5]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb1' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

I am testing on Fedora 28 now.

It does work on F28:

$ graphStats
==================Graph Stats==================
Number of Nodes:  18
Number of Edges:  31
Maximum Shortest Path Length:  6
Average Shortest Path Length:  3.388 ± 1.495
Maximum Number of Connections:  7
Average Number of Connections:  3.444 ± 1.535


So the problem is, cjdns-graph now installs on EL7, but doesn't run.  Should I just exclude the subpackage for el7?

That crash is probably fixable, as the default encoding is ascii on el7, but something bigger on Fedora.

So, graphStats is fixed, dumpgraph works, and drawgraph gets much farther on el7 after installing python2-matplotlib.  It now fails with:


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/drawgraph", line 19, in <module>
    p=nx.spring_layout(G)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'spring_layout'


It seems that the version of python-networkx on el7 is too old (1.8.1) to have spring_layout.

I'm thinking that drawgraph is pretty useful, and graphStats works - so I should include the package on el7, with some release notes that drawgraph is broken until python-networkx on el7 is updated.

cjdns-20.2-5.el7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-c726fec101

cjdns-20.2-5.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-c726fec101

This updated package is installable on RHEL 7.6, and is past it's 14 days in testing.  Unless there is a reason you know about, this can be marked as stable and pushed to epel7.

It is pushed to "Batched".

cjdns-20.2-5.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.