On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:05:42 -0700 Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 January 2013 12:11, Russell Golden niveusluna@www2.niveusluna.org wrote:
I have a question that may better address the problem. At least to me.
Why does epel-release need to change so much in the first place?
I believe it is due to key signing. The key is signed against the other Fedora Keys. So when the F18 key or some other key comes out, the EPEL key gets signed with it.
It doesn't change very often at all. From the changelog:
* Sun Nov 04 2012 stahnma@fedoraproject.org - 6-8 - Fix URL bz #870686
* Wed May 09 2012 Jens Petersen petersen@redhat.com - 6-7 - add ppc64 to ghc_arches
* Tue Jan 10 2012 Jens Petersen petersen@redhat.com - 6-6 - add /etc/rpm/macros.ghc-srpm from fedora redhat-rpm-macros
* Tue Oct 12 2010 Michael Stahnke stahnma@fedoraproject.org - 6-5 - Fix bug #627611
* Wed Aug 11 2010 Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> - 6-4 - conflict fedora-release ...
so 2 or 3 times a year due to macros or other adjustments and sometimes 0 times a year (2010).
kevin