[X2Go-Dev] X2go on EPEL6 outdated

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 12:11 PM Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de> wrote:

> On 01.02.2016 03:51 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > At my new employer, I've convinced our system administrators to give
> x2go a
> > shot. They noticed that it is included in EPEL6 and installed it on
> CentOS6
> > workstations. This test went pretty well so far. Unfortunately, that
> installed
> > version 3.5 of x2go, which as I understand it is not the best impression
> that we
> > can make. We deployed it with the sqlite back end and I noticed that the
> > cleansessions daemon appears to crash from time to time. This is very
> annoying
> > in particular given that we reboot our login nodes about once to twice a
> year
> > and the effects are rather unintuitive to debug. My hope is that x2go 4
> is more
> > resilient here (but I admit that I didn't check myself).
> >
> > In any case, I suppose it is in everyone's best interest to prefer a
> newer
> > version of x2go than currently in EPEL6
> > (cf.
> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repoview/x2goagent.html) -
> > because otherwise, EPEL user are not going to receive any work towards
> getting
> > bugfixes.
>
> You're confusing nx-libs, which has a 3.5.x versioning scheme, with the
> x2goserver versioning scheme.
>
> x2goagent is part of nx-libs and 3.5.0.32 is the newest stable release I
> made.
>

Thank you very much for clarifying, I was clearly confused and your
explanation helps a lot.

It appears though that our site does not automatically get updates from
EPEL6 package. I'll clarify this with our admins.

Reinhard
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