EPEL Version requirements

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:29:28 -0600
Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> wrote:

> Are there any requirements that the version of a package in say EPEL
> 5 needs to be less than the version in RHEL6?  Since upgrades are not
> supported between EL versions, I was wondering if this was a
> requirement or not.  Is this noted anywhere?  I can't find a
> particular mention, although I suspect it's implicitly inherited from
> Fedora.  But I wonder if an exception can be made.
> 
> Driving this is this bug report:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=997946
> 
> asking for environment-modules 3.2.10 in EPEL5.  For EL6 it was moved
> into RHEL and is at 3.2.9c.

No, there shouldn't be any requirement. There's no upgrade path between
them, they are different products. 

Perhaps we should codify that on the epel guidelines page tho. 

kevin
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