[CentOS-devel] "CentOS.devel"

Thu Apr 9 01:53:59 UTC 2015
Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com>

On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 20:46:31 -0500
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

http://www.scrye.com/wordpress/nirik/2014/11/26/how-packages-are-added-to-epel-7/

kevin
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