RHEL-6 vs EPEL-6 versions

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Sep 1 17:09:41 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 11:13:14AM +0100, Mark Chappell wrote:
> As I understand it, it was agreed that where we ship versions of
> packages that Red Hat ship we were going to try to ship rebuilds of the
> Red Hat SRPMs.  This was primarily intended for things like the the perl
> tree where there's a whole slew of perl packages that aren't available
> for certain architectures.

The above doesn't seem to apply to:

> RHEL: febootstrap-2.7-1.el6.1
> EPEL: febootstrap-2.7-1.el6

The latest RHEL 6 package is in fact febootstrap-2.7-1.2.el6, uploaded
on 2010-07-06.  It *should* be available on all architectures AFAIK.

In any case, there is no need to rebuild this for EPEL.  You can just
drop this package from EPEL 6 if it is there.

Rich.

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