[X2Go-Dev] Use of the EPEL name

[Orion Poplawski]

On 06/19/2014 12:48 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Hi Orion,
>
> On  Mi 18 Jun 2014 18:48:40 CEST, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>
>> On 06/18/2014 05:16 AM, Michael DePaulo wrote:
>>> I agree that this sounds misleading.
>>>
>>> However, don't those builds depend on certain packages in EPEL?
>>
>> If so, then have language like:
>>
>> These packages require some packages from the Fedora EPEL repo, as well as
>> replaces the versions of the X2Go packages from Fedora EPEL.
>>
>> But I really want it clear that there are Fedora EPEL X2Go packages and
>> there are X2Go provided packages for EL, and they are different.
>>
>
> the X2Go packages we build against RHEL+EPEL indeed depend on EPEL. For
> RHEL5+6 they don't work with vanilla RHEL (not tested, but we depend on quite
> some recent third-party software with some packages).
>
> Can you please fix the corresponding page on the wiki yourself? I am fine with
> those changes and they will provide more clarity.
>
> Please also add the information, that distro-native packages are also
> available and that they should be preferred. The EPEL/Fedora packaging we do
> (from my side) mainly focuses on development snapshots for those distros and
> for short-cutting review/packaging cycles in the official distro archives.
>
> You may also add such similar information to [2] (?).
>
> Thanks+Greets,
> Mike
>
> [1] http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:repositories:epel
> [2] http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:repositories:fedora

I've made some changes, mainly to 
http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:development:nightly-builds?&#nightly_builds_for_rhel

If you want to change the language of [1] and [2] above to change the emphasis 
to using the distribution/EPEL provided packages I'll let you do that.


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