Summary from yesterdays EPEL SIG meeting

[Orion Poplawski]

Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:06:52PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> 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.

Don't forget about "5Client" too.  Not sure what else...

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