Thanks Marek, that does clear up a lot of confusion.
I think you're saying that because the maintainer is the same and the packages
are essentially the same (in this case), it's reasonably likely maintenance of
2.6 for EPEL7 will continue until 2.6 reaches its end date in SCL (April 2018).
Not
> It's starting to look like the official MongoDB repositories might make a
> whole lot
> more sense for the average admin currently using EPEL MongoDB packages:
>
> https://docs.mongodb.com/v3.0/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-red-hat/
>
> If I find out they aren't doing such a hot job with these,
Even there should be security patches for 2.6 for some time, I am not against
upgrade in EPEL7. I am not sure that upgrading in EPEL6 worth the time - I am
afraid that a lot of dependencies is outdated in EPEL6 and people could use
newer RHEL version...
So is everyone fine with announcing this
> 1. We have no access (no pun intended) to those packages.[Yes the
> person packages mongodb in Fedora works for Red Hat but that does not
> mean they have access to the bits that another group is doing for SCL
> work.]
First, everyone should have an access to those packages - available source co
