El Jueves 02/11/2017 a las 15:03, Peter Rex escribió:
Thanks for the info, Ricardo. Hadn't found the retirement notice.
Security,
I guess. I can't resist saying, though, that I regret using Ansible and my
assumption that one of the Es in EPEL stood for Enterprise. Oh well, live
and learn.
I think that is a bit unfair to the EPEL people, who do an amazing job IMHO.
This is a volunteer-run project (the "E" for enterprise is from
upstream -RHEL-, and these are Extra Packages for EL) and sometimes hard
decisions have to be made.
For the record: I'm not a contributor to this project, I'm just a user.
From the EPEL Wiki
(
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#Can_I_rely_on_these_packages.3F):
"Can I rely on these packages?
The EPEL project strives to provide packages with both high quality and
stability. However, EPEL is maintained by a community of people who generally
volunteer their time and no commercial support is provided. It is the nature
of such a project that packages will come and go from the EPEL repositories
over the course of a single release. In addition, it is possible that
occasionally an incompatible update will be released such that administrator
action is required. By policy these are announced in advance in order to give
administrators time to test and provide suggestions.
It is strongly recommended that if you make use of EPEL, and especially if you
rely upon it, that you subscribe to the epel-announce list. Traffic on this
list is kept to a minimum needed to notify administrators of important
updates."
Cheers!
On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Ricardo J. Barberis
<ricardo(a)palmtx.com.ar>
wrote:
> El Miércoles 01/11/2017 a las 23:58, Peter Rex escribió:
> > Is gone. Any particular reason?
>
> Yep, mostly security vulnerabilities and 2.x being available, check out
> these
> threads for more info:
>
>
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@
>
lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BVB3PXVUFNKKGHGVAOGVNNZODJBFYTMR/
>
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@
>
lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VZ3BFEZ5526KMZI53MUZL6YZK3Z7EBB2/
>
> Cheers,
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