On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>
>> Is there a timeline for when version 4.x will appear in the main epel
>> repo?
>
>
> Because there's not really an automated upgrade path with the extensiveness
> of the changes there's really not a good way to do it. I don't want to break
> anyone's running system.
>
> I hate to wait for EL 8 but not sure what the options are. With the long
> life of EL releases it's a difficult problem to work around.

Can't you name the package backuppc4 so they can have overlapping life
spans and updates?   Seems safer than putting a same-named package in
a different repo where a future update will probably accidentally pull
in some other same-named package and clobber the one you wanted to
keep.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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