[odb-users] ODB 2.4.0 released

Dave Johansen davejohansen at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 12:07:44 EST 2015


On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com>
wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Yes, it's good and bad. I understand the desired to use the latest and
> > greatest but I personally lean toward the current lackness in the policy
> to
> > being on the "bad" end of things. The whole point of RHEL is a "stable
> > platform" and updating versions of components kind of throws that idea
> out
> > the window, so that's why I'm a little hesitant with it updating in EPEL
> > like that.
>
> I always thought that the "initial" RHEL release is the conservative,
> stable platforms. If, however, someone wants something more recent,
> EPEL is the place to look. If not, what's the EPEL's purpose then?
>

The EPEL's purpose is to provide additional packages beyond what RedHat
included in RHEL and not "newer ones". It cannot provide a package that is
already in RHEL. For examples, occasionally a later point release of RHEL
will add a package that is already in EPEL and at that point the package
must be removed from EPEL, even if it's a different version than what was
added by RHEL.

If you're interested, you can see all the details here (
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL ).


> But since you are doing the work, you have the final say ;-). I
> personally always feel hesitant installing anything from personal
> repositories. You never know if the stuff will still be there
> tomorrow.
>

That's part of what the "Fedorapeople Repos" is trying to address. It's at
least hosted on a "trusted" server and was created by a "proven packager"
so it won't just disappear and should have the same (or at least similar)
level of trust as what you'd have in Fedora.


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