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.
No it isn't. Yum will upgrade you to the latest version in the
repository so there would need to be a 7.3 tree and yum would have to
point to it. That takes a lot of work on our side and not a lot of
people have been interested in doing the work.
Thanks.
Fred
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:27 PM +0800, "Pat Riehecky"
<riehecky(a)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(a)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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