[CentOS] [OT] EPEL update?

[Greg Bailey]

On 12/03/2018 04:00 AM, isdtor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OT for this list, but maybe I can get some pointers - how hard is it to get some packages updated in EPEL? The project web site sends you from link to link, and the ML web interface is horrible. No interest here to become a package maintainer or regular contributor.
>
> I have taken it upon myself to rebuild MATE from Fedora 29, seeing that the current EPEL-7 packages are four revisions behind. Also updated a few packages to their latest upstream version.
>
>

You're not the first person to make this request:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436260

In comment #2 of that bug report, there's a reference to enabling a copr 
repo with MATE 1.18.x, with more info at:

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/raveit65/Mate-GTK3/

-Greg