Red Hat Launches New Package Repository for Enterprise Linux

[Bryan J Smith]

Sundaram, Rahul wrote:  
> He wants Red Hat to include EPEL as a repository by default.
> By "update batch", he is referring to the sync updates like 5.1.
> This needs to be discussed with product management.
> I will let you know if and when there 
is a change.

That's what I thought, but didn't want to assume.

Now even as an outsider, I don't see it happening.
EPEL throws many wrenches into SLAs and guarantees,
among many other things, which we can revisit from RHL days.

EPEL is great.
EPEL can and should be accommodated as best as possible.
But I don't see that going into the product itself,
other than maybe the Fedora signing key for security.

At least if I was a product manager at Red Hat,
that's just the line I would have to draw for SLA reasons.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>

Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:36:30 
To:For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base <fedora-marketing-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Red Hat Launches New Package Repository for Enterprise Linux


Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 17:16 -0500, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
>> Now they only have to issue an update batch where they also include as 
>> dependencies the required packages to configure these extra repositories 
>> in the deployed and supported distributions so users would have to do 
>> zero to very little configuration and start using these packages.
> 
> I've re-read this a couple of times and I'm still confused on what you
> meant by an "update batch"?  And provided by whom?
> 

He wants Red Hat to include EPEL as a repository by default. By "update 
batch", he is referring to the sync updates like 5.1. This needs to be 
discussed with product management. I will let you know if and when there 
is a change.

Rahul

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