On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 19:58, Jesse Keating jkeating@j2solutions.net wrote:
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Here is the situation. In EPEL6 we'd like to ship Trac 0.12. This is the latest upstream release and since upstream tends to do db format changes between releases we'd like to start with the newest one and run with it.
However trac 0.12 requires python-genshi 0.6, and RHEL6(.0) will ship with python-genshi-0.5.x. I've put in an RFE to get that updated in RHEL6.1. There is good chance, but not a guarantee that this will happen.
I think this is a very common case and trac should not get any special treatment.
RHEL6 will ship with a lot of components that will be already obsolete on release date or a few months later.
I think that is just life.
My solution: I use RHEL + EPEL for all the packages I need, but don't really care about that much, basically the basic plumbing. Then I add Remis repository because he is tracking the newest PHP + MySQL. Sometimes I also add rpmforge.
What I would love would be another repository which is EPEL (lets call it ERPEL), but does not care about replacing RHEL packages. I am sure the quality would be better than rpmforge and I might not even need the Remi repository. After a few year this would make RHEL+ERPEL == Fedora though.
Christof