RHEL 5.3

[Phil Schaffner]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:07:58AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> On 23.01.2009 07:39, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>>> RHEL 5.3 brought with it some new additions
>>> pexepct ( congrats rsc, your package got in unmodified)
>>> java-1.6.0-openjdk (only on i386 and x86_64)  we will need to 
>>> ExclusiveArch ppc  it.
>>>
>>>
>>> In accordance with out guideline of not replacing RHEL packages we need 
>>> to remove them.  there are possibly others.  Im going to get together a 
>>> list of packages that moved from EPEL to RHEL.  I will mark them dead 
>>> in cvs and remove them from the repos.
>> In the past we left the packages in the repo until CentOS had released  
>> their latest version (CentOS 5.3 in this case) + two or three weeks for  
>> people to update to it. I assume that will be the case this time as well?
> 
> Karanbir Singh posted this on his blog a few days ago:
> 
> http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2009/01/20/the-centos-5-3-grind-starts

CentOS 5.3 has been on the streets since April 1.

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-April/015711.html

Somewhat OT: Any chance of EPEL shipping a working Firefox Java plugin?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483881

Phil