With the release of 1.5.9 are there any plans to update the package available in EPEL repository? My caching servers are on CentOS 6 and have 1.5.1 installed from the epel repo. Prior to 1.5.1 I recall new versions appearing regularly.
I have tried compiling and installing as a means of upgrade, but my lack of compiling skills always revert me back to the epel package.
Thank you for your software,
Ehren
Unfortunately, no. Because unbound moved into core RHEL, and so updates will
happen within RHEL and the EPEL package is now retired and cannot
be updated to be a higher version than what's in RHEL. Although
currently, that is the case because EPEL was newer than what was in
RHEL7, and the RHEL6 packages are just clones of the RHEL7 ones.
(the reason unbound became part of RHEL was because libreswan replaced
openswan in RHEL-6.8, and we needed to keep that package and its
dependencies the same)
If people with a RHEL subscription file a bug to ask for an upgraded
version, that would help me push for unbound updates in RHEL6/RHEL7.
Paul
I don't know the EPEL rules, but do they allow things like "unbound15" as a package i.e. move to a separate name for the "newer/upstream" combo?
Or put newer packages in another hosted repository?
Or put newer packages in another hosted repository?
While possible, not many people would find them available. You
could just grab the fedora package and rebuild it - at least
for RHEL7. For RHEL6 the changes to the spec file will be
minimal (like the version change and possibly some patch
removal)
Paul
Yes that could be done. But I'd rather try and see if the base package
can get a better update mechanism.
Paul
As a community, is there anything we can do to encourage this?