On 27 December 2012 11:15, Michael Stahnke <stah...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 07:35:51 +0100 >> Remi Collet <fed...@famillecollet.com> wrote: >> >> > Le 21/12/2012 19:17, Kevin Fenzi a écrit : >> > > On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:59:14 +0100 >> > > Remi Collet <fed...@famillecollet.com> wrote: >> > > >> > >> Why doesn't this exists yet ? >> > > >> > > Because there's not an automated way to create it? >> > >> > A simple one: >> > >> > ln -f 6/i386/epel-release-* epel-release-6.rpm >> >> How is that automated? :) >> >> Sure, I can do that manually right now, but what makes you think I >> would notice when there's a new update? Manually putting it on a >> person is something I want to avoid. ;) >> >> Perhaps we could use something from the fedmsg bus to detect when this >> package is pushed to stable. Or run a cron job that lists the most >> current one in the repo... > > > Another option, how do we just get epel-release into RHEL? Scientific ships > with it in their core. It makes things so much nicer. I realize Red Hat > doesn't want to support everything from EPEL, but having it easily available > might be nice. I haven't used a RHEL system since 2007 without EPEL anyway > ;)
I don't believe it will ever happen. Too many customers take it to mean that what is shipped on Red Hat means it is Red Hat built and supported. From dealing as a customer the number of times I had to "report" flash because my boss told me to means that even shipping EPEL installation instructions means a lot of pain and suffering. -- Stephen J Smoogen. "Don't derail a useful feature for the 99% because you're not in it." Linus Torvalds "Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list epel-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
