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On 10/12/2014 12:12 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:41:32 -0500 Mukundan Ragavan > <nonamed...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> I would like some clarification from folks here regarding >> updating gparted on EPEL-5 and EPEL-6. >> >> The version of gparted shipped in EPEl-5 is 0.4.8 and EPEL-6 is >> 0.6.0 while the current upstream version is 0.19.1 (which I >> recently built in EPEL-7). >> >> Mike Fleetwood, who is a gparted developer, has opened a bug >> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133315) suggesting >> that gparted be updated in both EPEL-5 and EPEL-6 since the >> current version fixes lot of major bugs. As I understand it, >> major versions updates are permitted if such an update fixes >> major issues. In this case, the update would fix a big list of >> problem. >> >> I tend to agree with Mike on updating but I would appreciate if >> people on comment on this. > > So, IMHO the big thing to take into account: Is the new version > incompatible with the old one? Will users have to adjust code or > scripts, or are the old arguments, etc still all good? I posed the same question to Mike (upstream devel). He has informed that the user experience will be the same between the versions. I have used in EL-6 and Fedora and have not been "surprised" by anything. But, Mike also confirms that EL-5 should not have any problems either. > > Additionally, Are the bugs things that might cause dataloss or > other severe things? That would also weigh in some. > > kevin > Yup! The newer version fixes many severe issues and that the reason I want to update EL-5 as well. Thanks for the reply! :) Mukundan. - -- GPG key-ID: 00E8658D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJURHwhAAoJEIfjPv0A6GWNnF4P/20Wzj29aI/J58bxHa7DLwCj Lnhyb8Tx4AM6rYPGbsJECVOJzugYZTTf0Bz42ZQumTANvM8EvRCwh52UkMDwzTdM xVRUWtxn9V+bQBh5Bw0pRs5xhRMga1Vb3Y9YZE34qys73O9BBuerq8ENnbvz5i18 PNGKTxLVzX00mupUKe+EQe+izIWIIlvYlyI1xkJuLkY628/HAwO4PsKFZBOudKMD 2nmkF7Dt4ffFuuycRLOeqWnr+RsJv746E8HB95q55/eqJOBg8lXprFQSBJt0zzar ieHttGLkWWdS9shnc2hL7xj40xIgFpWvFEY0NgCmR37UUFXNThfctqasouXqD0qF AMwoD6Tvmpo1GHUIE0K0wRJxr6VLj1BUMuPs5Nm5VGiGCp1wvklqb9RJFK01XJ4s y3R2pwnWQapRFMXj+SOz2mI4GBqVn2/kpHs7EXA0/vTAne2rXlmsoMNtZPt3o8sV PFS10xVApQESKWu7LfiE/DXamGS6ljfJFq1uPYWuYWp1rxePrXdqTZ4XjToq2xE+ k0O8mdAMaSxzjmOjTMjttdTDmeEF/jYNBOATbnkSWPnnnG63k46lu98tK6QVvh+U +1/XiXhK9B2wJECyE12KPKcTvoZb/85uR7e8TqqnqqS1fTEURHD6XSi7DZtxUEyW FZCv+KJ305VelqtZckzs =mJiM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list epel-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel
