Release and update procedure for EPEL

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 3/2/07, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> 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...
>

That would be the APEL list... with a nice APEL with a worm in it.


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Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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