RHEL 5.3

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:07:58AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 23.01.2009 07:39, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>> RHEL 5.3 brought with it some new additions
>> pexepct ( congrats rsc, your package got in unmodified)
>> java-1.6.0-openjdk (only on i386 and x86_64)  we will need to 
>> ExclusiveArch ppc  it.
>>
>>
>> In accordance with out guideline of not replacing RHEL packages we need 
>> to remove them.  there are possibly others.  Im going to get together a 
>> list of packages that moved from EPEL to RHEL.  I will mark them dead 
>> in cvs and remove them from the repos.
>
> In the past we left the packages in the repo until CentOS had released  
> their latest version (CentOS 5.3 in this case) + two or three weeks for  
> people to update to it. I assume that will be the case this time as well?

Karanbir Singh posted this on his blog a few days ago:

http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2009/01/20/the-centos-5-3-grind-starts

Rich.

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