On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:16:41 -0700
Orion Poplawski <orion(a)cora.nwra.com> wrote:
On 02/18/2012 10:58 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:14:20 -0700
> Orion Poplawski<orion(a)cora.nwra.com> wrote:
>
>> hwloc 1.4 has been submitted as an update to EPEL5 and 6:
>>
>>
<
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2012-0500/hwloc-1.4-1...
>>
<
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2012-0501/hwloc-1.4-1...
>>
>> There are two problems with this:
>>
>> - hwloc 1.1 is now in RHEL6:
>>
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/hwloc-1....
>> - hwloc 1.1 has a soname of libhwloc.so.1, 1.4 has libhwloc.so.4,
>> although nothing in RHEL5/6 or EPEL5/6 appears to depend on it.
>
> I've unpushed the epel6 update with a comment asking the maintainer
> to end of life the el6 branch.
>
> kevin
I think the epel5 update needs to be stopped too as it would prevent
upgrade paths from EL5->EL6.
We don't support upgrades between major RHEL versions, so that should
be fine. ;)
kevin