Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-29 Thread John Pilkington
On 29/03/15 14:44, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:04 AM, John Pilkington j.p...@tesco.net wrote: On 27/03/15 08:53, Tom H wrote: Point releases are just a snapshot of the packages at a certain point in time, like Debian 6.x/7.x and Ubuntu 12.04.x/14.04.x. RHEL offers its customers an

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-29 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Steve Gaarder gaar...@math.cornell.edu wrote: In that case, I'm thinking that it could be useful to maintain an EPEL mirror that does not get updated between TUV's release and the SL release. I could do that for my own use or it could be a community effort.

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: The ultimate cause of this issue was an upgrade of glib2 by RedHat in RHEL

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-27 Thread John Pilkington
On 27/03/15 08:53, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: The ultimate cause of this issue was an

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-27 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Tim Kanuka tim.kan...@lightsource.ca wrote: I think having a EPEL mirror in the way described by Steve is an excellent idea. It exactly parallels my own requirement (and I suppose any site's requirement) of managing updates to many machines. The only way to

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-27 Thread Steve Gaarder
In that case, I'm thinking that it could be useful to maintain an EPEL mirror that does not get updated between TUV's release and the SL release. I could do that for my own use or it could be a community effort. Thoughts? Steve Gaarder System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics Cornell

RE: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-27 Thread Tim Kanuka
: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Steve Gaarder Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 09:45 To: Akemi Yagi Cc: SL Users Subject: Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo In that case, I'm thinking that it could be useful to maintain an EPEL

Re: SL 7.1 schedule? (was Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo)

2015-03-27 Thread Mark Stodola
On 03/27/2015 01:39 PM, Steve Gaarder wrote: It would be very helpful to me if I could have some idea of when SL 7.1 is likely to emerge. That will tell me whether I can just wait or need to come up with some kind of workaround for the EPEL problem. thanks, Steve Gaarder System Administrator,

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-27 Thread John Pilkington
On 27/03/15 18:01, Steve Gaarder wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Akemi Yagi wrote: One thing that is different from EPEL is that ELRepo's el7.1 packages that are _not_ backward compatible will not install on systems 7.1. yum will complain. My understanding is that EPEL packages do not have such

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-26 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: On 03/19/2015 03:34 AM, John Pilkington wrote: I had been under the impression that it was likely to be safe to use 'epel' packages, so, wishing to provide feedback, I installed a new version of qtwebkit from

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-26 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: The ultimate cause of this issue was an upgrade of glib2 by RedHat in RHEL 7.1. And because the glib2 library does not use symbol versioning, rpm cannot

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-24 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 03/19/2015 03:34 AM, John Pilkington wrote: I had been under the impression that it was likely to be safe to use 'epel' packages, so, wishing to provide feedback, I installed a new version of qtwebkit from epel-testing. No hint of problems during installation, but programs using it failed.