[EPEL-devel] clarification about updates in EPEL

[Mukundan Ragavan]

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On 10/12/2014 12:12 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:41:32 -0500 Mukundan Ragavan
> <nonamedotc at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I would like some clarification from folks here regarding
>> updating gparted on EPEL-5 and EPEL-6.
>> 
>> The version of gparted shipped in EPEl-5 is 0.4.8 and EPEL-6 is
>> 0.6.0 while the current upstream version is 0.19.1 (which I
>> recently built in EPEL-7).
>> 
>> Mike Fleetwood, who is a gparted developer, has opened a bug 
>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133315) suggesting
>> that gparted be updated in both EPEL-5 and EPEL-6 since the
>> current version fixes lot of major bugs. As I understand it,
>> major versions updates are permitted if such an update fixes
>> major issues. In this case, the update would fix a big list of
>> problem.
>> 
>> I tend to agree with Mike on updating but I would appreciate if
>> people on comment on this.
> 
> So, IMHO the big thing to take into account: Is the new version 
> incompatible with the old one? Will users have to adjust code or 
> scripts, or are the old arguments, etc still all good?


I posed the same question to Mike (upstream devel). He has informed
that the user experience will be the same between the versions. I have
used in EL-6 and Fedora and have not been "surprised" by anything.
But, Mike also confirms that EL-5 should not have any problems either.

> 
> Additionally, Are the bugs things that might cause dataloss or
> other severe things? That would also weigh in some.
> 
> kevin
> 

Yup! The newer version fixes many severe issues and that the reason I
want to update EL-5 as well.

Thanks for the reply! :)

Mukundan.

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