redhat@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Just received a fedora email with the following announcement. Seems interesting; > > > =================================== > > If you use enterprise-class Linux (EL) distributions derived from > Fedora, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, we have something > very exciting for you. > > Ever find yourself rebuilding one of the high-quality Fedora packages > for your EL version because it didn't ship with the EL distro? > > Friends, there is a new way. May we introduce ... > > Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) > > EPEL is a community of package maintainers working from inside of > Fedora. Many are the same people who maintain the Fedora version. Yet, > there room for new packages and contributors. Currently, around 1000 > packages are available, and we've been growing at the rate of several > dozen packages every week. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL > > How to use EPEL: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse > > You can look for packages here: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#WhereIsTheSoftwareRepositoryLocated > > Looking for a package not in EPEL or other questions? > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ Just to reiterate a post to the main EPEL list: https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-July/msg00238.html So, make SURE you are using the yum-priorities (yum-plugin-priorities in CentOS-4) if you are using EPEL ... especially if you are using it with other 3rd party repos/. Here is info on Priorities: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities
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