[rhelv6-list] EPEL History

[thomas at redhat.com]

On 11/8/18 9:04 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> Usually it comes from rebuilding a system. If your kickstart needed
> xyz-foo and it is no longer in EPEL but you only find out at 2am when
> you rebuilt because the raid array died.. you end up in a bad spot.

Ah, great point. I would still recommend you keep your systems up to
date instead of using outdated packages, but I now understand the
scenario better.

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