[rhelv6-list] EPEL History

Brandon Sawyers bsawyers at vt.edu
Thu Nov 8 15:32:24 UTC 2018


We have answered this by running a local pulp server and keeping a local
copy of the EPEL repo locked in place.

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 10:29 AM thomas at redhat.com <thomas at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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 date instead of using outdated packages, but I now understand the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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