Epoptes

Is there any chance for RHEL support?

Asked by Marcin Wilk

Simple, do You plan, or is there some developer inside the team, that is interested in making Epoptes to work well with RHEL or it's clones?

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Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) said : 		#1

The upstream Epoptes developers are using Debian and Ubuntu.
We do want to support any and all distributions, but we can't invest the necessary time to learn their specific needs and packaging policies.

So as with any upstream project, distro maintainers need to step up and contribute patches that will make Epoptes work with their distros.
A Debian developer joined the team and helps wth the Debian packaging, and an Ubuntu developer helps with the Ubuntu-specific bits.

At one point a RHEL user tried to make Epoptes run in his system. We helped him do it, and we modified theupstream code to avoid parts that didn't work on RHEL (e.g. lsb functions, dpkg -l etc). But he had no packaging skills, so he couldn't make a package out of the result.

So, we do welcome any related patches, and we're willing to cooperate with any distro maintainers, but we can't invest the time to become maintainers for all distros.

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