Hi, Am 09.02.2015 um 13:43 schrieb Greg Troxel: >> RHEL6/CentOS6 provide full updates until 2017Q2. Subversion 1.6.11 is >> used in the distributions. > > What version of trac do they provide?
RHEL does not provide trac itself. Fedora EPEL 5+6 shipped old versions of trac but we'll likely retire these versions. > Why isn't that ok for people that want to use a distribution that doesn't > have updates? I'm actually serious with this question - I just don't > understand the thought process that goes into this. Red Hat promises to support this Subversion version so they will do everything necessary to resolve critical bugs (or backport fixes), provide support (depending on your Red Hat contract) and of course fix security issues. Red Hat employs many hundred (thousand?) Open source developers specifically so they have the knowledge to fix all of their supported components if necessary. Red Hat also still supports Python 2.4 and old PHP versions for example. So basically with RHEL you get a base OS which "just works" and you should be able to install all provided updates without any issues. For EPEL this is different because it's just community-supported. > Also, people on RHEL6 can install pkgsrc and build all of trac's > dependencies, and get modern versions. Or by hand - if one is going to > build new trac, why can't one build new subversion? Well, it's much easiert to install Trac than to compile subversion (e.g. "no compilation required for trac"). Also replacing subversion is not so easy because there might be a lot of other tools (e.g. Apache integration) which need to be recompiled as well. Generally RHEL users don't want to replace system components but rely on Red Hat engineers for that and they they are doing a great job. Felix -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to trac-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to trac-dev@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-dev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
