EPEL-6 Plan of attack
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Tue Mar 16 21:02:08 UTC 2010
Dennis Gilmore (dennis at ausil.us) said:
> we will also announce our intention to branch.
>
> Every package that is not orphaned in EL-5 will be branched for EL-6.
There needs to be some provision here for things included in EL-6 already
(I'm sure there will be some)
> for instance python-hashlib is in EL-5 to support stronger hashed metadata for
> the buildsystem. its part of newer pythons so my nobranch file will contain
> "Exists in newer python" this is just a historical something so if someone
> down the road questions why they can go and see
>
> We will give 2 weeks from announcement before we setup the cvs branches. this
> will let us make sure anything thats in EL-6 gets nobranch files we will be
> branching EL-6 branches from F-12 branches
Can't there be some automation of this part - examine the EL-6 repo
for things that obsolete existing EPEL packages?
Bill
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