For what it's worth, discrepancies between the real EPEL and the repo that Oracle calls EPEL have been a known issue for quite some time. The problem goes beyond just packages with differing versions. There are a significant number of packages that only exist in the real EPEL or only in Oracle's repo. Back in 2021 I updated the default mock configs for oracle+epel to use the real EPEL because of this problem.
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/pull/806 In that pull request Avi mentions that the reason for rebuilding EPEL packages is so that an Oracle customer can get all of their packages from Oracle. He said he had no objection to Oracle renaming their repo to something else to avoid this confusion, but this does not appear to have happened yet. Avi, is that something that is still within the realm of possibility? On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 10:37 AM Leon Fauster via epel-devel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 31.05.24 um 15:30 schrieb Troy Dawson: > > On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 2:48 AM Peter Soppe <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Hello EPEL Team, > > > > I am trying to find out how to contact the maintainer of the Oracle > > Linux EPEL repository. > > The only website I found about EPEL and Contact is > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#contact > > <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#contact> > > > > My current issue is that I use the Oracle Linux 8 EPEL package > > "cacti" - and there is a security issue that is solved in cacti > > Version 1.2.27 (2024-05-12). > > > > This version is available in the Fedora/RHEL Epel > > https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/cacti/cacti/ > > <https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/cacti/cacti/> since > > 2024-05-21 (9 days after release) > > but not in the Oracle Linux EPEL: > > > > https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL8/developer/EPEL/x86_64/index.html > > > > <https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL8/developer/EPEL/x86_64/index.html> > > Here the latest available Version is 1.2.23 (2023-01-13) which is > > about 19 months old. > > > > I want to know if there are plans to update the cacti version in the > > Oracle EPEL repo and if yes what is the planned timeline to do so. > > > > Best regards, > > Peter Soppe > > > > > > Although the Oracle Linux EPEL repository has the word "EPEL" in it, it > > is a repository supported and maintained by Oracle Linux. Similar to > > the CentOS Extras repo. > > As such, we can only point you back to the distribution and its community. > > > > https://support.oracle.com/ <https://support.oracle.com/> > > > > I did try looking for other information, but everything I found only had > > a heading and to get more information I needed to create an Oracle > > account and log in, which I am not willing to do. > > > > > @Peter why not using the original repo -> EPEL of EPEL :-) > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/ > > (do not forget to disable the EPE(O)L repo of Oracle). > > > -- > > Leon > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- Carl George -- _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
