The Globus package repo is maintained by Globus and will always contain
the latest released Globus packages. Globus also maintains unstable and
testing package repos.
The EPEL pacakges are maintained by a cooperative 3rd party, and can
include patches that have not yet been approved by Globus, or updates
from the Globus github repository that have not yet been released to the
stable Globus package repo.
Generally, the differences will be minor or short-lived -- Globus
updates tend to get pulled into EPEL fairly quickly, and important
patches from EPEL will quickly get released to the stable Globus package
repo.
In this case, globus-common-15.27 includes a minor change to a utility
function that was updated as part of a new set of features that have not
yet been pushed to the stable package repo, but should be soon.
Mike
On 2/16/2015 1:59 AM, Osamu Tatebe wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to ask about versions available at globus repository
http://toolkit.globus.org/ftppub/gt6/installers/repo/globus-toolkit-repo-latest.noarch.rpm
and EPEL.
We expect globus repository is newer than EPEL. Howeber it seems not
to be true.
For example, when using EPEL
$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/globus-version
globus-common-progs-15.27-1.el6.x86_64
$ globus-version
6.0
When using globus repository,
$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/globus-version
globus-common-progs-15.26-1.el5+gt6
$ globus-version
6.1alpha1
EPEL is newer than globus repository in terms of minor version of package.
Which repository do you suggest to use? I would like to know the
relationship and management of two repositories.
Regards,
Osamu
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Osamu Tatebe
University of Tsukuba
