On Tuesday 06 April 2010 12:23:41 pm Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com>
said:
> So if anyone is at fault here, it is me.. so please direct all fewmets my
> way.
Don't take it as a flame, just take it as an honest question about
EPEL's target. Either RHEL or CentOS has to be the #1 target (they
can't both be); I was trying to find out if there is a definitive
statement one way or the other (or if it was assumed, or what).
This would have been a moot point if RHEL hadn't broken the ABI
mid-release though. :-(
They are both the target :) there is no reason to target only one.
the buildroots get updated when the next RHEL is released. we clean up things
moved from epel to rhel when CentOS releases. due to this particular change
things will be broken for a short time, but thats out of our control.
ideally the new packages needing rhel 5.5 will sit in testing until such time
as centos 5.5 is out. it will mean that an epel and rhel user will have to
use updates-testing for those packages, but i think that's ok.
Dennis