On Nov 8, 2007 12:22 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:18:55 +0100
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora(a)leemhuis.info> wrote:
> Well, we need to put some thoughts into this -- if we for example
> start building packages that require the newer libvirt today then
> users of CentOS 5.0 (5.1 is not released yet) and those still on RHEL
> 5.0.x would run into dependency issues when using EPEL. We should try
> hard to avoid that. That's why I suggested to keep "5.0" directories
> around for some weeks months -- but the idea was not that welcomed
> afaics...
5.0.x doesn't exist. 5.1.z will exist, for a period of time up to the
release of 5.4 I think, or 5.5.
<grumpy id="old sys-admin">
So Red Hat didnt go with a 5.0.x? I am so glad they communicated that
with a customer who banked on using it. At this point is there any
assurance that 5.1.x will really exist?
</grumpy>
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