[CentOS] yumex in CentOS 5.1 "extras" repository

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Wed Dec 5 12:14:42 UTC 2007


Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>>> Hi, there isn't any version of yumex in 5.1 extras directory. Perhaps it
>>> is time for version 2.0.3?
>>
>> We have version yumex-2.0.1-1.el5.centos.noarch.rpm in the extras repo
>> ... any compelling reason to switch?
> 
> I don't understand the question. I am currently using 2.0.2 from EPEL
> which is the latest official version mentioned in yumex site, and 2.0.3
> is the yumex version available in fedora core 9. Why don;t you use 2.0.2
> at least, but 2.0.1?

Because ... CentOS is enterprise software ... if something works, we
don't normally upgrade it UNLESS there is security issue or some other
very compelling reason to upgrade.

I haven't looked, but doesn't feodora 9 use yum 3.2 ... centos-5 uses
yum-3.0.  That in itself might be a good reason not to upgrade.

The goals of CentOS and Fedora are quite different.

CentOS is designed to install, configure, and use for 7 years.  Our
users expect that once configure and installed, they can develop scipts
/ programs / business intelligence related software with the distro, ans
that their developed software will work until they decide to upgrade to
a new MAJOR branch of CentOS.

CentOS does not normally upgrade things JUST because there is a newer
version available.  This is especially true in the Extras and
Base/Updates repos.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes


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