On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:40:12PM +1000, Conrad Sand wrote: > RHEL6 does have some use within a few Fortune 500 companies for > running existing backend infrastructure. The type of infrastructure > that is meant to be "set-and-forget", modulo security updates. > > However, as a general development platform or a workstation, RHEL6 is > next to useless, as it's outdated and superseded. According to > Wikipedia, RHEL6 is out of "Production 2" support, and in a zombie > state (ie. "Production 3"). This zombie state will last as "extended" > support until 2024. Is anybody going to seriously use the RHEL6 > toolset in 2024 ? > > Using RHEL6 for development, and hence updating EPEL6, in effect > following the sunk cost fallacy. A better use of time would be to > update EPEL7. RHEL7 is still in "Production 1" phase. EPEL7 update is in progress. Very easy to rebuild for EPEL6 too, so there's little reason not to. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-e36735026b Looks like some downstream Armadillo packages need to be rebuilt before that one is ready. I know that the Armadillo version is out of date, but we'll push the soname bump first then I can push the updated patch version. -- Ryan Curtin | "That rug really tied the room together." ryan@xxxxxxxxx | - The Dude _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
