On 07/18/2009 03:34 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > Welcome to Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL). > > WARNINGS: > ---------------- > > Use at your own risk. There is no guarentee that the package will > work or that it will not be upgraded tomorrow to an incompatible > package.
I prefer a more specific explanation of the process and policies regarding what we *try* to provide rather than a generic warning. Since I am not too close to them, I am not providing the alternative wording here. > About: > ---------------- > EPEL is a group of people trying to make packages inside of Fedora > available to users of Red Hat(TM) Enterprise Linux (and clones like > CentOS and Scientific Linux). Policies for what packages are allowed > inside of EPEL can be found at I prefer instead: EPEL (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) is a community of people who provide a add-on repository of packages sourced from Fedora and built for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and compatible community rebuilds such as CentOS and Scientific Linux) > > Changes to packages will be announced on > [email protected]. Please subscribe at > http://something1.org > > Packages are built via koji by maintainers and pushed into the EPEL > testing repository. They can be tested there, and votes about problems > can be put into bodhi (http://something2.org). Packages with 0 or > greater scores will be pushed into EPEL stable after two weeks. Koji build system (http://koji.fedoraproject.org). Packages are usually pushed .. . Can be overridden by the maintainer? > > License: > --------------- > EPEL packages are delivered under open source licenses that are allowed > by Fedora. Source code for the packages can be found at various mirrors > or http://something3.org EPEL software packages are delivered under free and open software licenses and follow the same guidelines as Fedora as described in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing Rahul _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
