On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:04 AM, John Pilkington <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 27/03/15 08:53, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Point releases are just a snapshot of the packages at a certain point
>> in time, like Debian 6.x/7.x and Ubuntu 12.04.x/14.04.x.
>>
>> RHEL offers its customers an EUS program for them to remain at a point
>> release and get security updates but it doesn't publish the EUS
>> sources in the same way that it doesn't publish the ELS sources.
>
> But my original point was that glib2-2.36.3-5, which I see in SL7x, was
> incompatible with the new (in epel-testing) qtwebkit, which needed
> glib2-2.40.0-4 from SL7rolling built off TUV's 7.1

If it's in "epel-testing", why shouldn't only work with 7rolling?

Even if it were in "epel", since RH released 7.1 threee weeks ago and
it's EPEL's target, why should EPEL care about SL (and CentOS) being
behind the curve?