Packages duplicated between EL-5 sub-channels and EPEL

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Fri Jan 15 04:46:56 UTC 2010


Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> said:
> Personally I think the point is we have to rewrite the rule to
> basically if its in
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/*/os/ we dont'
> replace/overwrite.. but otherwise caveat empor. Especially since one
> of the things EPEL allows for RH is to have packages that they know
> are packaged to standards, work with EL (at somepoint of time) that
> they can then pull back into layered products.

It is Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, not EP for Satellite Server
(or MRG, etc.).  Don't overlap with RHEL (Server and Workstation) and
leave it at that.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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