On 03.08.2008 16:58, Mike McGrath wrote:
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> The *only* viable solution for when packages are pulled in from EPEL
> to RHEL proper is to either pull them in at the same version as EPEL,
> or to inflate the epoch for the package in RHEL so it always obsoletes
> EPEL (though this can also be tricky, as downgrading foo-1.2 to
> foo-1.1 can has undesired side-effects).
> This is a policy decision that needs to be worked out between EPEL and
> RHEL -- preferably ASAP.
I partially agree except that I'd say this is a policy decision that
should be worked out between package maintianers. I suspect a bug filed
against trousers would do the trick. Has anyone contacted the maintainer
yet?
The RHEL maintainer? Not as far as I know. Maybe the EPEL maintainer
has, but I doubt it.
CU
knurd