Red Hat Launches New Package Repository for Enterprise Linux

[Rahul Sundaram]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 17:16 -0500, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
>> Now they only have to issue an update batch where they also include as 
>> dependencies the required packages to configure these extra repositories 
>> in the deployed and supported distributions so users would have to do 
>> zero to very little configuration and start using these packages.
> 
> I've re-read this a couple of times and I'm still confused on what you
> meant by an "update batch"?  And provided by whom?
> 

He wants Red Hat to include EPEL as a repository by default. By "update 
batch", he is referring to the sync updates like 5.1. This needs to be 
discussed with product management. I will let you know if and when there 
is a change.

Rahul