[CentOS-devel] "CentOS.devel"

Thu Apr 9 01:46:31 UTC 2015
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Projects which are aimed at the EL-7 -> EL-8 space will get a lot of
>> pushback from users when things get updated (this is the reason openstack
>> and various other tools have had to been pulled from EPEL in the past..)
>
> That's partly because there are a *lot* of components in EPEL 6 than
> are present in EPEL 7. I ran headlong into this trying to build up RT
> version 4, the perl dependencies include something like 20 perl module
> SRPM's that are not in EPEL 7  or in CentOS 7. Many of them are
> available in EPEL 6.

Do you know if there is some showstopper reason for this or is is just
that it takes a long time to get done?    I just noticed the other day
that backuppc isn't there either.

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  Les Mikesell
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