Orion Poplawski wrote:
Despite not supporting upgrades from 5->6 it seems bad form to
have
EPEL5 be newer.
The flip side to this is that RHEL often lags a good bit behind and
are willing to pay folks to backport fixes and security patches.
That's not the case for most EPEL maintainers so things can and do
diverge.
I recall asking about this when I was updating git and the general
consensus was that keeping the EVR in epel5 less than rhel6 wasn't
terribly important.
In the end, I didn't keep epel less than rhel and git-1.7.4.1 is in
epel5 while rhel6 is still on 1.7.1, with only 2 security fixes.
There's been a lot of fixes and improvements in git that rhel users
are missing out on, IMO. At the least, I'd have expected to see rhel
update to the latest 1.7.1.x¹ release with one of the 6.x refreshes.
There's not really one good answer to this issue.
¹
https://raw.github.com/gitster/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.1.txt
https://raw.github.com/gitster/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.2.txt
https://raw.github.com/gitster/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.3.txt
https://raw.github.com/gitster/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.4.txt
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