Orion Poplawski <or...@cora.nwra.com> wrote: > I also don't see a terribly big difference between pulling packages from > CentOS or from EPEL. Wouldn't they have to be the same anyways?
Which does to my greater point ... If the package is pulled from EL Rebuilds, then it only solves it for EL Rebuilds, not Red Hat Enterprise customers. If the package is pulled from EPEL, it solves it for both EL Rebuilds and Red Hat customers. Both the EL Rebuilds and Red Hat build the packages in their respective release options. I used to advise Red Hat customers that EPEL was the location where they could get software maintained to Fedora Project standards that did not conflict with Red Hat Enterprise products sans one or two. But now I have to advise with many asterisks, and then I get concern looks -- some of disbelief (until they look into it) and others who just don't want to bother. The expectations have changed, to the point Red Hat customers have enough issues. Case-in-point: (Real World, First Hand experience here ...) These are the exact same issues Red Hat customers moved to EPEL in the first place, away from using things like CentOS Extras. They wanted the extra packages, but not anything that conflicted with Red Hat Enterprise products. But that's no longer the case. If the EL Rebuilds want to get together and coordinate repos so there is one source for rebuilds from Red Hat SRPMS, I think that's a great idea. But if you make the Red Hat sponsored, Fedora Project's EPEL SIG this repository, then you will just turn EPEL into what many Red Hat customers did not like with CentOS Extras. And even if the Fedora Project is going to continue to be leveraged for this endeavor, to keep the customers that preferred EPEL over things like CentOS Extras, you're going to need to segment the two. Otherwise they will leave and not come back. I can't be the only person who has been around Enterprises this long who has seen this over all these years. ;) -- Bryan J Smith - Professional, Technical Annoyance _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list epel-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
