On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:51 PM, BJ Dierkes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Steve, > > On Mar 3, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Steve Traylen wrote: > >> Moved to mailing list rather than bug. >> >> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:17 PM, BJ Dierkes <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Actually, because both sqlite and subversion exist in RHEL they are not >>> a good fit for EPEL based on their packaging guidelines. >> >> Really? Obviously if these were upgrades that would be a problem but >> 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 > > >> 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. >
In case you did not notice there is a python26 review underway now: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573151 > 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
