It is understandable. But why not keep the old versions in the very same repo? yum is capable of matching the them with different OSes.

Thanks.

Fred




On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:27 PM +0800, "Pat Riehecky" <riehecky@fnal.gov> wrote:

EPEL tracks the latest RHEL release.  There are a number of fixes in 7.4 and 7.5 that are really worth it.

Pat

On 04/25/2018 09:09 AM, Fred Liu wrote:
So abandon SL7.3? Does it mean EPEL doesn’t have consistent compatibility?

Thanks.

Fred




On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:57 PM +0800, "Pat Riehecky" <riehecky@fnal.gov> wrote:

I would recommend updating to SL 7.4

Pat

On 04/25/2018 08:37 AM, Fred Liu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used to successfully install mate-desktop on SL7.3 by EPEL7. But
> today, when I tried again, I saw some incompatibility
> issues(glib2,gtk3+,etc). And I can successfully install it on OL7.5.
> Is normal? From my understanding, EPEL7 should work in both
> OSes.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Fred
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