On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:42:15AM +0100, Merlin Hartley wrote: > I get 4.84 from EPEL in CentOS 7: > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/repoview/exim.html > <https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/repoview/exim.html> > > Presumably you are still using an ancient operating system <wink> ;)
The whole point of using something like CentOS/RedHat is to have a stable platform that you can just let run for 10 years. This is why they are reluctant to update packages - in case it breaks something. One of the nice things about exim is that new versions work with old configurations - so upgrading should not break anything. However the EPEL maintainers might not see things that way. They sometimes have multiple versions of something in a repo, eg python & python27 .... we might pursuade them to have exim and exim-latest - then anyone installing exim-latest would acknowledge that their config might break as the cost for the latest feature. They might be reluctant to do this - perceived extra work, much of which would be QA/testing. I would be willing to help on a project of maintaining exim-latest for EPEL (centos 6 (i386/x86_64) & centos 7 (x86_64)) - I can run on my own machines but would need others to also test. I raised this with the EPEL exim maintainers in Oct 2012. After a bit the reply that I got was: > > as a co-maintainer and after the review I rejected to make an > > EPEL rebase because there are a lot of code changes including > > several config / behavioral changes, so the rebase would be > > certainly against EPEL policy which goal is to bring stable > > enterprise class environment. Feel free to contact package > > owner if you think it's EPEL OK I got the feeling of pushing a stone up hill with my nose and so rebuilt it myself and distributed to what I cared about. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/exim/ -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php #include <std_disclaimer.h> -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
