On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:40:12PM +1000, Conrad Sand wrote:
> RHEL6 does have some use within a few Fortune 500 companies for
> running existing backend infrastructure.  The type of infrastructure
> that is meant to be "set-and-forget", modulo security updates.
> 
> However, as a general development platform or a workstation, RHEL6 is
> next to useless, as it's outdated and superseded.  According to
> Wikipedia, RHEL6 is out of "Production 2" support, and in a zombie
> state (ie. "Production 3").  This zombie state will last as "extended"
> support until 2024.  Is anybody going to seriously use the RHEL6
> toolset in 2024 ?
> 
> Using RHEL6 for development, and hence updating EPEL6, in effect
> following the sunk cost fallacy.  A better use of time would be to
> update EPEL7.  RHEL7 is still in "Production 1" phase.

EPEL7 update is in progress.  Very easy to rebuild for EPEL6 too, so
there's little reason not to.

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-e36735026b

Looks like some downstream Armadillo packages need to be rebuilt before
that one is ready.

I know that the Armadillo version is out of date, but we'll push the
soname bump first then I can push the updated patch version.

-- 
Ryan Curtin    | "That rug really tied the room together."
r...@ratml.org |   - The Dude
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