El Jueves 02/11/2017 a las 15:03, Peter Rex escribió: > Thanks for the info, Ricardo. Hadn't found the retirement notice. Security, > I guess. I can't resist saying, though, that I regret using Ansible and my > assumption that one of the Es in EPEL stood for Enterprise. Oh well, live > and learn.
I think that is a bit unfair to the EPEL people, who do an amazing job IMHO. This is a volunteer-run project (the "E" for enterprise is from upstream -RHEL-, and these are Extra Packages for EL) and sometimes hard decisions have to be made. For the record: I'm not a contributor to this project, I'm just a user. From the EPEL Wiki (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#Can_I_rely_on_these_packages.3F): "Can I rely on these packages? The EPEL project strives to provide packages with both high quality and stability. However, EPEL is maintained by a community of people who generally volunteer their time and no commercial support is provided. It is the nature of such a project that packages will come and go from the EPEL repositories over the course of a single release. In addition, it is possible that occasionally an incompatible update will be released such that administrator action is required. By policy these are announced in advance in order to give administrators time to test and provide suggestions. It is strongly recommended that if you make use of EPEL, and especially if you rely upon it, that you subscribe to the epel-announce list. Traffic on this list is kept to a minimum needed to notify administrators of important updates." Cheers! > On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Ricardo J. Barberis <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > El Miércoles 01/11/2017 a las 23:58, Peter Rex escribió: > > > Is gone. Any particular reason? > > > > Yep, mostly security vulnerabilities and 2.x being available, check out > > these > > threads for more info: > > > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@ > > lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BVB3PXVUFNKKGHGVAOGVNNZODJBFYTMR/ > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@ > > lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VZ3BFEZ5526KMZI53MUZL6YZK3Z7EBB2/ > > > > Cheers, -- Ricardo J. Barberis Usuario Linux Nº 250625: http://counter.li.org/ Usuario LFS Nº 5121: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Senior SysAdmin / IT Architect - www.DonWeb.com _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
