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What is EPEL about?

April 26, 2017EPEL

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What is EPEL about?

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EPEL is a kind of Fedora Extras for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Versions 4 and 5 only atm) and compatible derivates such as CentOS or Scientific Linux. The repo is available already at http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/ — but please note that the repo it’s not yet ready for general public consumption. We’d like to fill the repo a bit more (hence this mail) before we announce EPEL for general use; there are also some small details that need to be sorted out before we can announce EPEL for real. Why is the Fedora project running EPEL? Simple: RHEL is derivated from Fedora, but doesn’t ship everything that is part of Fedora Core or Extras — but some people (both contributors and users) would like to easily use those packages on RHEL-based distributions as well, as they are familiar with them from Fedora already. EPEL wants to fill that gap and provide those Fedora packages that are not part of RHEL and derivates. Doing so should be easy: the Fedora project has all the spec files