EPEL-6 status

[Jason Tholstrup]

Hi all,

I'm just trying to gauge where you guys feel like you are at in the build
out of EPEL-6.  I've tried to find the info but I'm honestly a little lost
when I try to navigate the web site.  At any rate I'm currently running
RHEL-6 with Fedora-12 as a supplemental repo (which is sort of a giant
mess).  At some point I'd like to start over and go RHEL/EPEL 6, but not
until there's a fuller ecosystem in place.  Anyway, I'm just trying to get
my bearings here in the Red Hat world and any high level guidance would be
helpful.

Thanks for all the work you guys do.
Jason Tholstrup

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 10:26 -0500, Jason Tholstrup wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  
>  I'm just trying to gauge where you guys feel like you are at in the
>  build out of EPEL-6.  I've tried to find the info but I'm honestly a
>  little lost when I try to navigate the web site.  At any rate I'm
>  currently running RHEL-6 with Fedora-12 as a supplemental repo (which
>  is sort of a giant mess).  At some point I'd like to start over and go
>  RHEL/EPEL 6, but not until there's a fuller ecosystem in place.
>  Anyway, I'm just trying to get my bearings here in the Red Hat world
>  and any high level guidance would be helpful. 
>   
go here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

and then it will link you to:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/beta/6/

pick your arch and you're on the way.

in short - there are a bunch of pkgs already ready for rhel6.

-sv

[Jason Tholstrup]

Yeah I've seen that information.  Correct me if I am wrong, but it looks
like there is still a good deal of work to be done to bring the EPEL-6 repo
up to the level of completeness that EPEL-5 is at.

What I don't want to do is rebuild this only to find myself still needing
Fedora-12 repos to get all of my applications back up and running.  I think
I'd feel comfortable doing this once you guys thought you were at (let's put
a precise number on a fuzzy guess) 90% completeness.  Do you feel like you
are that far along or do you still feel like there are some significant gaps
in packages that need to be brought over?

Thanks for your help,
Jason Tholstrup


On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:53 AM, seth vidal <skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;wrote:

>  On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 10:26 -0500, Jason Tholstrup wrote:
>  > Hi all,
>  >
>  > I'm just trying to gauge where you guys feel like you are at in the
>  > build out of EPEL-6.  I've tried to find the info but I'm honestly a
>  > little lost when I try to navigate the web site.  At any rate I'm
>  > currently running RHEL-6 with Fedora-12 as a supplemental repo (which
>  > is sort of a giant mess).  At some point I'd like to start over and go
>  > RHEL/EPEL 6, but not until there's a fuller ecosystem in place.
>  > Anyway, I'm just trying to get my bearings here in the Red Hat world
>  > and any high level guidance would be helpful.
>  >
>
>  go here:
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>
>  and then it will link you to:
>
>  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/beta/6/
>
>  pick your arch and you're on the way.
>
>  in short - there are a bunch of pkgs already ready for rhel6.
>
>  -sv
>
>
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[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:36, Jason Tholstrup <jason(a)tholstrup.info&gt; wrote:
>  Yeah I've seen that information.  Correct me if I am wrong, but
> it looks
>  like there is still a good deal of work to be done to bring the EPEL-6 repo
>  up to the level of completeness that EPEL-5 is at.
>
>  What I don't want to do is rebuild this only to find myself still needing
>  Fedora-12 repos to get all of my applications back up and running.  I think
>  I'd feel comfortable doing this once you guys thought you were at (let's put
>  a precise number on a fuzzy guess) 90% completeness.  Do you feel like you
>  are that far along or do you still feel like there are some significant gaps
>  in packages that need to be brought over?
>
>  Thanks for your help,
>  Jason Tholstrup
>  
Well I think we need to understand what you mean by completeness? Due
to every release requiring/providing quite a bit of different things,
we have not had a real 100% level because things may have been
supplanted, EOL'd, not required from what was in EL-4 or EL-5 to EL-6.
So what packages do you need for your worksite and then we can see
what we have to build still. [Yes it is a chicken and an egg problem
but somehwere a lizard has to start sprouting feathers.]



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