On 29/03/15 14:44, Tom H wrote:
> 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?
>
I wasn't making a complaint.  I found something I didn't expect and 
thought it worth a 'heads-up.'