Problem Fixed: EPEL mirror list problems (2014-09-03)
by Stephen John Smoogen
There was a problem with EPEL metadata that was pushed out yesterday
causing updates for various channels to not work. If you are getting errors
about mirrors having wrong meta-data please try the following:
yum clean metadata
Many thanks to Kevin Fenzi and Pierre-Yves Chibon on finding the problem in
the database and cleaning it out. Many thanks also to avij for answering
questions people were having in #epel on Freenode IRC.
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Stephen J Smoogen.
9 years, 8 months
Reformed EPEL Steering Committee
by Stephen John Smoogen
At last week's EPEL meeting, it was proposed that at least a short term
governing committee be put together to help on the following items:
1) EPEL.next (EPIC or EPEL-rolling, etc)
2) Formalizing various amounts of unwritten rules for package addition,
removal and maintenance in current repos.
3) Lower workload on Kevin Fenzi and Dennis Gilmore as they have been EPEL
since the last EPSCO was around.
At that meeting the following people were nominated to the committee:
Dennis Gilmore
Kevin Fenzi
Stephen Smoogen
Jim Perrin
Todays (2014-08-29) meeting this was 'formalized' with people attending the
meeting. Added to that was a beginning proposal of committee governance:
The governance structure will be a short term organization to set up
policies and procedues in place for continual maintenance of EPEL. The term
of the committee will end 3 months after either new repos are setup or
voted not going to happen by said committee. If a longer term running
committee is required, the previous board will set up policies for
elections and term lengths before the short term committee ends.
After the meeting I realized that wasn't a good deadline so would like to
alter it these changes should be completed by the Fedora 22 release date.
Working Motto: We put the SCO in Enterprise Linux
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Stephen J Smoogen.
9 years, 8 months