inotify-tools is unmaintained

[elfosardo]

inotify-tools last release is from september 2023 and last update in the repo is 7 months old (May 2024), it's not present in EPEL10 and not updated in EPEL9
we need to find a replacement or rewrite inotifywait mechanism in some way
we use inotifywait from inotify-tools in multiple places:
https://github.com/metal3-io/ironic-image/blob/main/scripts/runironic#L16
https://github.com/metal3-io/ironic-image/blob/main/scripts/runhttpd#L76
https://github.com/metal3-io/ironic-image/blob/main/scripts/runhttpd#L84
https://github.com/metal3-io/ironic-image/blob/main/scripts/runlogwatch.sh#L6

also we should not accept changes that use inotifywait anymore

[Rozzii]

/triage accepted
Has been discussed on 2024.12.18 Community meeting.

[tuminoid]

I quickly checked alternatives and very few options in EPEL in general. fswatch, watchman etc all missing in EPEL9 as well. incron is there but it is completely different usage and bad fit for containers.

I might be easiest to just make a custom Python snippet to simulate inotify-tools. We already use similar for processing jinja2 templates.

[dtantsur]

Bonus points for avoiding EPEL entirely (python3-inotify seems to be in the main repo).