EnterpriseExtras/Packaging

= Packaging in EPEL =

The packages in EPEL mainly follow the Fedora Packaging Guidelines -- that includes  packaging guidelines, the   package naming guidelines  and the   package review guidelines  that are designed and maintained by the  Packaging Committee.

But there are some exceptions for packages in EPEL, which are listed below.

General exceptions

 * Packages in EPEL should never replace packages from the enterprise distribution it was build for
 * Packages in EPEL should never knowingly cause trouble in packages of the enterprise distribution that the package is build for
 * Software that is in some form part of a enterprise distribution version or one of its spins is not allowed in the EPEL release for that product version
 * kernel modules are not allowed in EPEL

EL4

 * RHEL Python packages should manually depend on the proper python version that it was build for. Most old FC-3 python packages should still use this trick.