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企业版Linux额外包(EPEL)

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什么是企业版Linux额外包(EPEL)?

企业版Linux额外包(以下简称EPEL)是一个由特别兴趣小组创建、维护并管理的，针对红帽Linux及其衍生发行版(比如CentOS、Scientific Linux的一个高质量附加软件包项目。

EPEL的包通常不会与企业版Linux的官方软件源发生冲突，或者替换文件。EPEL与Fedora项目基本一致，包含完整的构建系统、升级管理器、镜像管理器等等。

更多信息请访问 EPEL FAQ

EPEL都提供什么类型或版本的软件包?

你可以道任意的EPEL镜像查看：mirror list

或者你可以使用repoview来查看:

• EPEL 6: i386, x86_64, ppc64, sources
• EPEL 5: i386, x86_64, ppc, sources
• EPEL 4: i386, x86_64, ppc, sources

How can I use these extra packages?

EPEL has an 'epel-release' package that includes gpg keys for package signing and repository information. Installing this package for your Enterprise Linux version should allow you to use normal tools such as yum to install packages and their dependencies. By default the stable EPEL repo is enabled, there is also a 'epel-testing' repository that contains packages that are not yet deemed stable.

If you are running an EL6 version: epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm

NOTE: You need to also enable the 'optional' repository to use EPEL packages as they depend on packages in that repository.

If you are running an EL5 version: epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

If you are running an EL4 version: epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm

You can verify these packages and their keys from the Fedora project's keys page: https://fedoraproject.org/keys

History and background of the project

The EPEL project was born when Fedora maintainers realized that the same infrastructure that builds and maintains packages would be great to also maintain add on packages for Enterprise Linux. Much of the early need was driven by what Fedora infrastructure needed on the RHEL machines that built and maintained Fedora. From there things have grown to a large collection of varied packages. See our history and Philosophy page for more information.

How can I contribute?

The EPEL SIG is always looking for interested folks to help out. We always need package maintainers, qa/testers, bug triagers, marketing and documentation writers. Please see our Joining EPEL page for more information on how to join the SIG.

Communicating with the EPEL SIG

There are many ways to communicate with the EPEL SIG and it's members:

• The #epel irc channel on irc.freenode.net offers real-time support for EPEL users and developers.

• The epel-devel-list is for general developer and SIG discussion.

• The epel-announce mailing list is a low volume mailing list for only important announcements.

• The epel-package-announce list is a list that gets information about package updates as they happen in the stable repository.

• If you find a bug in a EPEL maintained package, please report it to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ under the "Fedora EPEL" component.

• The EPEL SIG meets every week in the #fedora-meeting irc channel at 20:30UTC. Feel free to join us! Logs of past meetings can be found at: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/epel/