On 01/06/2016 12:42 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> On środa, 6 stycznia 2016 09:31:01 CET Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> I've created a "scitech" FAS and COPR group for the SciTech SIG
>> (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SciTech_SIG).  My immediate
>> goal is to create some common repositories for updated builds of
>> scientific software for EL7 (& 6).  My thought is to have a have common
>> repository (https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/g/scitech/common/) for
>> updated libraries, then individual repositories for updated programs
>> like octave, julia, etc.
> 
> Why COPR instead of EPEL?
> 
> EPEL is part of Fedora package git tree, all extra stuff from Fedora is 
> available in one place...
> 
> For me COPR is good solution for tests before package lands in Fedora (or 
> EPEL).

Oh yeah, I already maintain quite a lot for EPEL.  However, EPEL guidelines
forbid major/disruptive updates, so this would be for such things as Octave 4.


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