On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:51 PM, BJ Dierkes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Steve, > >> co-existing packages. > > We [EPEL] are continuing the discussion of introducing newer versions of EPEL > packages... like moin19, mediawikiXY, etc for incompatible upgrades. However > it is strict policy that nothing in EPEL upgrades/obsoletes/conflicts with > anything in RHEL Base. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#Policy_for_Conflicting_Packages >
I don't read that as banning parallel packages. I am only talking about parralel packages here. I am never suggest that a RHEL RPM should be upgraded by EPEL. We are in agreement. When I used "new package " before I meant completely new and not a new upgrade. Anyway: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570318 is just such a parallel package submitted yesterday Steve > >> This really is not permitted? I was thinking of python31 that recently >> went into Fedora but of >> course that's Fedora not EPEL. > >> I was going to ask. Why not add the your python26 packages to EPEL.. >> > > Yeah, different in Fedora... but again python31 is an optional/alternative > upgrade/install of 'python' which exists in Fedora. RHEL did the same thing > with postgres84 in RHEL 5.5. I suppose you *might* be able to get a parallel > install package into EPEL if it doesn't conflict with RHEL... but I've not > seen that before and assume it would get rejected. > > If EPEL ever decides they want to do that then IUS would definitely merge > packages into EPEL and there'd be no reason for IUS. But we're different in > that we explicitly do provide upgrades for packges that exist in RHEL, and > EPEL doesn't... but rather adds packages that don't exist in RHEL. > > Regardless, thanks for your interest and if/when EPEL rejects the packages we > can work to get them added to IUS. ;) > > --- > BJ Dierkes > Linux Systems Engineer IV / [RH]acker > Infrastructure Services [Development] > Rackspace Hosting -- Steve Traylen _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ius-community Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ius-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
