On 25 April 2018 at 10:31, Fred Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > It is understandable. But why not keep the old versions in the very same > repo? yum is capable of matching the them with different OSes. >
No it isn't. Yum will upgrade you to the latest version in the repository so there would need to be a 7.3 tree and yum would have to point to it. That takes a lot of work on our side and not a lot of people have been interested in doing the work. > Thanks. > > Fred > > > > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:27 PM +0800, "Pat Riehecky" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> EPEL tracks the latest RHEL release. There are a number of fixes in 7.4 >> and 7.5 that are really worth it. >> >> Pat >> >> On 04/25/2018 09:09 AM, Fred Liu wrote: >> >> So abandon SL7.3? Does it mean EPEL doesn’t have consistent compatibility? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Fred >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:57 PM +0800, "Pat Riehecky" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I would recommend updating to SL 7.4 >>> >>> Pat >>> >>> On 04/25/2018 08:37 AM, Fred Liu wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > I used to successfully install mate-desktop on SL7.3 by EPEL7. But >>> > today, when I tried again, I saw some incompatibility >>> > issues(glib2,gtk3+,etc). And I can successfully install it on OL7.5. >>> > Is normal? From my understanding, EPEL7 should work in both >>> > OSes. >>> > >>> > Any ideas? >>> > >>> > >>> > Thanks. >>> > >>> > >>> > Fred >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > epel-devel mailing list -- [email protected] >>> > To unsubscribe send an email to >>> > [email protected] >>> >>> -- >>> Pat Riehecky >>> >>> Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory >>> www.fnal.gov >>> www.scientificlinux.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> epel-devel mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> epel-devel mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> >> -- >> Pat Riehecky >> >> Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory >> www.fnal.gov >> www.scientificlinux.org > > > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
