Fedora User Management (revisited)

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Mar 6 14:53:44 UTC 2007


Mike McGrath wrote:
> Enrico Scholz wrote:
>> Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>  
>>> We've been discussing Fedora User Management in EPEL.
>>>     
>>
>> Won't work. 'rpm' in RHEL is too old and misses features required by
>> fedora-usermgmt.
>>   
> So we're stuck having to fix a bunch of packages so they'll work in 
> another dist other than Fedora?  I wish someone had seen this coming.

On the bright side, it makes the decision on whether to use 
fedora-usermgmt in epel(4) easier.

Enrico, could you enlighten us what exactly doesn't work with el4's rpm?

-- Rex




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