On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:53 PM, Gilles Dubreuil <gil...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > The idea, which is probably not new or has been asked before, is about > having EPEL repos to behave like RHEL repos and keep RPMs version from > previous release/updates. > > The best case scenario is for recent version of the programming > languages, but it could apply to many other packages. > > Languages in particular have regular and important updates which are > released as stable version. There is no reason for EPEL to not benefit > from those. > > But bringing more recent release potentially breaks backward > compatibility and therefore is not recommended by the Fedora/EPEL > package update policy. > > Meanwhile if EPEL could keep older RPMs version like RHEL channels does, > then we could satisfy more people by offering various versions. > > Does it make sense and is this doable? > I believe that COPR and/or SCL are much better fits for rolling out newer versions of packages like this.
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