Orion Poplawski <or...@cora.nwra.com> writes: >> 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.
[The guidelines are a bit of a laugh in this area when faced with the el6 MPI mess and then, for instance, scalapack being disruptively updated :-(.] The other obvious reason to use copr is the difficulty/pain of getting useful things into EPEL and policy which bans kernel module packaging, for instance. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
