Release and update procedure for EPEL

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Fri Mar 2 17:44:50 UTC 2007


Bill Nottingham schrieb:
> Thorsten Leemhuis (fedora at leemhuis.info) said: 
>> AFIACS the same as in Extras in the past: File a bug, poke Red Hat
>> maintainers (¹) and pray that it gets fixed.
>> Especially the last part is important.
>> Sorry, sound like a joke, and in parts is one, but well, on the other
>> hands that's how it roughly worked for community contributors in Extras(²).
> Sure, but it's actually a lot easier to get things fixed in Fedora,

>From my point of view it seems quite hard sometimes... But that's a
different story...

> especially if it's just 'grab a newer version'. I'm not sure I can
> convincingly come up with a business case for rebasing guile for
> RHEL 4. :)

:-)

Anyway, do you have any proposed solution for the problem at hand that
not involves replacing or disturbing pacakges from RHEL? Then I'm all
ears...

CU
thl




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