This week I took a few minutes and compared packages on a RHEL6 Workstation install with EPEL packages available to it. Here is what I found.
IDENTICAL VERSIONS a2ps-0:4.14-10.1.el6.i686 a2ps-0:4.14-10.1.el6.x86_64 emacs-a2ps-0:4.14-10.1.el6.x86_64 emacs-a2ps-el-0:4.14-10.1.el6.x86_64 html2ps-0:1.0-0.4.b5.el6.noarch libart_lgpl-0:2.3.20-5.1.el6.i686 libart_lgpl-0:2.3.20-5.1.el6.x86_64 libart_lgpl-devel-0:2.3.20-5.1.el6.i686 libart_lgpl-devel-0:2.3.20-5.1.el6.x86_64 lzop-0:1.02-0.9.rc1.el6.x86_64 perl-B-Keywords-0:1.09-3.1.el6.noarch perl-Class-Accessor-0:0.31-6.1.el6.noarch perl-Class-Data-Inheritable-0:0.08-3.1.el6.noarch perl-Class-Trigger-0:0.13-2.1.el6.noarch perl-Devel-Cycle-0:1.10-3.1.el6.noarch perl-Email-Date-Format-0:1.002-5.el6.noarch perl-Exception-Class-0:1.29-1.1.el6.noarch perl-File-Copy-Recursive-0:0.38-4.el6.noarch perl-Font-AFM-0:1.20-3.1.el6.noarch perl-HTML-Format-0:2.04-11.1.el6.noarch perl-Locale-PO-0:0.21-2.1.el6.noarch perl-MIME-Lite-0:3.027-2.el6.noarch perl-MIME-Types-0:1.28-2.el6.noarch perl-Module-Find-0:0.08-3.el6.noarch perl-Net-SMTP-SSL-0:1.01-4.el6.noarch perl-PadWalker-0:1.9-1.el6.x86_64 perl-Perl-Critic-0:1.105-2.el6.noarch perl-Pod-Spell-0:1.01-6.1.el6.noarch perl-String-Format-0:1.15-2.1.el6.noarch perl-Syntax-Highlight-Engine-Kate-0:0.04-5.1.el6.noarch perl-Test-Memory-Cycle-0:1.04-7.1.el6.noarch perl-Test-Perl-Critic-0:1.01-7.1.el6.noarch perl-UNIVERSAL-can-0:1.15-1.el6.noarch perl-UNIVERSAL-isa-0:1.03-1.el6.noarch perl-XML-TokeParser-0:0.05-2.1.el6.noarch perl-XML-Writer-0:0.606-6.el6.noarch ruby-shadow-0:1.4.1-13.el6.x86_64 scons-0:2.0.1-1.el6.noarch xhtml2ps-0:1.0-0.4.b5.el6.noarch I was surprised to find so many packages in EPEL with the same version as the same package in RHEL. While this doesn't cause any problems in cases where the RHEL package is already installed in other cases, a new install or something pulled in by another dependency, will grab the EPEL package in a more or less default configuration which doesn't seem to be a good thing to be happening. Why are there all these packages in EPEL with an identical version to packages in RHEL? HIGHER VERSION IN EPEL koan-0:2.2.3-2.el6.noarch (koan-0:2.0.7-21.el6sat.noarch) libesmtp-0:1.0.4-16.el6.i686 (libesmtp-0:1.0.4-15.el6.i686) libesmtp-0:1.0.4-16.el6.x86_64 (libesmtp-0:1.0.4-15.el6.x86_64) libmnl-0:1.0.3-4.el6.i686 (libmnl-0:1.0.2-3.el6.i686) libmnl-0:1.0.3-4.el6.x86_64 (libmnl-0:1.0.2-3.el6.x86_64) libmnl-devel-0:1.0.3-4.el6.i686 (libmnl-devel-0:1.0.2-3.el6.i686) libmnl-devel-0:1.0.3-4.el6.x86_64 (libmnl-devel-0:1.0.2-3.el6.x86_64) libnfnetlink-0:1.0.0-3.el6.i686 (libnfnetlink-0:1.0.0-1.el6.i686) libnfnetlink-0:1.0.0-3.el6.x86_64 (libnfnetlink-0:1.0.0-1.el6.x86_64) libnfnetlink-devel-0:1.0.0-3.el6.i686 (libnfnetlink-devel-0:1.0.0-1.el6.i686) libnfnetlink-devel-0:1.0.0-3.el6.x86_64 (libnfnetlink-devel-0:1.0.0-1.el6.x86_64) python-mako-0:0.5.0-5.el6.noarch (python-mako-0:0.3.4-1.el6.noarch) python-zope-interface-0:3.7.0-2.el6.x86_64 (python-zope-interface-0:3.5.2-2.1.el6.x86_64) Some of these have been corrected and the rest now have bugs filed against them. The only one that I'm curious about really is koan which conflicts with the same package in the rhn-tools channel. While my gut thinks that should be considered part of base RHEL I don't know if it ever has been?! HIGHER VERSION IN RHEL biosdevname-0:0.3.11-1.el6.x86_64 (biosdevname-0:0.3.4-1.el6.x86_64) febootstrap-0:3.12-1.el6.x86_64 (febootstrap-0:2.7-1.el6.x86_64) ht2html-0:2.0-10.1.el6.noarch (ht2html-0:2.0-10.el6.noarch) jabberpy-0:0.5-0.21.el6sat.noarch (jabberpy-0:0.5-0.21.el6.noarch) osutil-0:2.0.1-1.el6.x86_64 (osutil-0:1.3.1-3.el6.1.x86_64) perl-Class-MethodMaker-0:2.16-4.el6.x86_64 (perl-Class-MethodMaker-0:2.15-2.el6.x86_64) perl-Config-Simple-0:4.59-5.1.el6.noarch (perl-Config-Simple-0:4.59-5.el6.noarch) perl-File-pushd-0:1.00-3.1.el6.noarch (perl-File-pushd-0:1.00-0.3.1.el6.noarch) perl-IO-Tty-0:1.08-4.el6.x86_64 (perl-IO-Tty-0:1.08-3.el6.x86_64) perl-IPC-Run-0:0.84-2.el6.noarch (perl-IPC-Run-0:0.84-1.el6.noarch) perl-Term-ProgressBar-0:2.09-10.el6.noarch (perl-Term-ProgressBar-0:2.09-8.el6.noarch) perl-Test-Spelling-0:0.11-7.el6.noarch (perl-Test-Spelling-0:0.11-5.1.el6.noarch) pexpect-0:2.3-6.el6.noarch (pexpect-0:2.3-5.el6.noarch) php-tidy-0:5.3.3-14.el6_3.x86_64 (php-tidy-0:5.3.3-1.el6.x86_64) pki-symkey-0:9.0.3-24.el6.x86_64 (pki-symkey-0:1.3.2-3.el6.1.x86_64) PyPAM-0:0.5.0-12.el6.x86_64 (PyPAM-0:0.5.0-11.el6.x86_64) python-krbV-0:1.0.90-3.el6.x86_64 (python-krbV-0:1.0.90-1.el6.x86_64) python-netaddr-0:0.7.5-4.el6.noarch (python-netaddr-0:0.7.5-1.el6.noarch) python-suds-0:0.4.1-3.el6.noarch (python-suds-0:0.4.1-1.el6.noarch) python-urwid-0:0.9.9.1-4.el6.x86_64 (python-urwid-0:0.9.9.1-1.el6.x86_64) rhn-custom-info-0:5.4.14-1.el6sat.noarch (rhn-custom-info-0:5.4.5-1.el6.noarch) rhnpush-0:5.5.42-7.el6sat.noarch (rhnpush-0:0.4.5-2.el6.noarch) scl-utils-0:20120423-2.el6.x86_64 (scl-utils-0:20120229-1.el6.x86_64) scl-utils-build-0:20120423-2.el6.x86_64 (scl-utils-build-0:20120229-1.el6.x86_64) wordnet-0:3.0-14.el6.i686 (wordnet-0:3.0-13.el6.i686) wordnet-0:3.0-14.el6.x86_64 (wordnet-0:3.0-13.el6.x86_64) wordnet-devel-0:3.0-14.el6.i686 (wordnet-devel-0:3.0-13.el6.i686) wordnet-devel-0:3.0-14.el6.x86_64 (wordnet-devel-0:3.0-13.el6.x86_64) xerces-c-0:3.0.1-20.el6.i686 (xerces-c-0:3.0.1-0.20.1.el6.i686) xerces-c-0:3.0.1-20.el6.x86_64 (xerces-c-0:3.0.1-0.20.1.el6.x86_64) xerces-c-devel-0:3.0.1-20.el6.i686 (xerces-c-devel-0:3.0.1-0.20.1.el6.i686) xerces-c-devel-0:3.0.1-20.el6.x86_64 (xerces-c-devel-0:3.0.1-0.20.1.el6.x86_64) xerces-c-doc-0:3.0.1-20.el6.noarch (xerces-c-doc-0:3.0.1-0.20.1.el6.noarch) This last group is harmless as far as I'm can tell. 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