Overlap policy v20120615

[Bryan J Smith]

Anyone with a RHN Satellite Server can do the entite media history from the
Kickstartable Trees in 5 minutes. I.e., I've done it many times over the
years, even recently off-list to many.

What I've heard is that some here will only accept a specific, actual
statement from Red Hat on its own entitlement history. So doing such, which
I've also done, is moot.  I.e., we continue to have a lot of interpretation.
 On Jun 23, 2012 12:30 PM, "inode0" <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > If you can list for us what actual channels are the equivalent of the old
> > AS/AP then we have something else that we can try to use to define
> logically
> > which channels should not be overlapped with.  If you've found this
> > information somewhere then giving it to us will be a valuable addition to
> > the conversation.  Otherwise, we'll have to continue to assume that there
> > isn't an actual understanding of what that is and we'll have to continue
> to
> > try to define it ourselves with a somewhat arbitrary division.
>
> I am willing to do some work here to attempt to sort this out since I
> think having a clear policy that EPEL users understand is worth the
> bother. I have media going back to RHEL3 and can sort through what
> came on it, which I think is a fair definition of what is part of
> "RHEL" proper prior to the release of RHEL6.
>
> I do want to observe that there was a media change in RHEL5 which
> added some things to the media which required entitlements that go
> beyond a RHEL server subscription so there is a transition point of
> sorts at RHEL5. At a glance I'm guessing this added several items
> which include clustering and GFS, load balancing, and some
> virtualization bits.
>
> Another observation that is important is that "comes on the
> installation media" doesn't cut it any more with the release of RHEL6
> since half of RHEL6 isn't distributed on media due to its size growing
> so dramatically but simply adding the optional channel to what RHEL6
> media contains seems to me to include what previously would have been
> distributed via the media with the possible exception of some or all
> of the Add-On channels which also may have been included on RHEL5
> media.
>
> So one question I have is whether it is worth the effort to go back
> beyond RHEL5 when looking at this now? Since Red Hat changes this up
> every release I doubt EPEL should be bound forever by whatever Red Hat
> did in 2004. Where do we want to draw the baseline now?
>
> John
>
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