Release and update procedure for EPEL

[Michael Stahnke]

Wasn't Red Hat introducing something along the lines of a LAMP stack
that rolls on top of RHEL?  LIke it would actually have PHP5/MySQL
5(or maybe 4.1) on top of RHEL 4.  It was a separate subscription I
thought, but a valid idea.  The latest software for what is needed,
and stable known-good software for the rest.

I thought something like that was talked about at the RH summit last year.

I do think that a rolling release on top of a no API/ABI breakage
release would be very difficult to do, and tend to agree that
targetting minor releases for updates probably makes the most sense
for users and developers.

On 3/1/07, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> Matthias Saou schrieb:
> > Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote :
> >> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 13:53 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:30:50PM +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> >>>> FP! :-)
> >>>> Joke aside, I'd like to see which views we have on the release and
> >>>> update procedure to apply to EPEL.
> >>>> - Do we want a moving (and potentially breaking) set of packages which
> >>>>   is constantly being updated?
> >>> The CentOS way
> >>>
> >>>> - De we want a fixed set of packages when a RHEL release is made and
> >>>>   focus on major bugfixes and security updates from there on?
> >>> More RHEL like
> >> FWIW, the CentOS people I spoke to at FOSDEM were very much interested
> >> in the "fixed set, with bugfixes and security updates only" model.
>
> I agree with the "fixed set, with bugfixes and security updates only", too.
>
> But also with this:
>
> > ...but also in providing a lot of recent stuff. They already have php 5
> > and mysql 5 in a separate location for people to use on CentOS 4.
>
> But I'd say we should leave this out for now until EPEL lift of, and
> find a a solution for this later.
>
> CU
> thl
>
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