Summary from yesterdays EPEL SIG meeting

[Michael E Brown]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:06:52PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Patrice Dumas schrieb:
> > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 05:39:36PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >>  * RHEL5's $RELEASEVER translates to 5Server instead of 5 ->  the plan
> >> is to hardcode 5 in the repo file to avoid problems
> > I can read the log to understand that, but if it isn't too long could
> > this be expanded a bit?
> 
> Not sure what you mean. The thing is this:
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/$releasever/
> gets translated to
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5server/
> by yum. That dir doesn't exists, so we simply use "5" instead of
> "$releasever" in yum pointers.

This doesnt sound like a good idea. You lose the automatic, "I upgrade from RHEL5 to RHEL6 and automatically get EPEL 6 stuff".

I would suggest simply making a symlink: "ln -s 5 5Server"

That is what I did for the unofficial Dell yum repos.
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Michael