Building RPMs

[A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk]

Hi,

> > On 22 Jul 2016, at 00:28, Matthew Newton <mcn4 at leicester.ac.uk> wrote:
> > It this one of those "RH is useless without EPEL" type things
> > where everyone just installs it anyway? Like the first thing you
> > did after installing Solairs was slap CSW on so the system felt
> > sane (memories from 10 years ago; I never install Solaris now
> > thankfully).
> 
> Yup - it's managed by red hat as a community project so semi-official. It's usually one of the first thing for you want to install.

its semi official enough that on a fresh install you can just

yum install epel-release


you cant do that for many other 3rd party REPOs  ;-)

alan