# epel/fedora packages info

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/epel-fedora-packages-info/13990>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** rhel, fedora\
**Created:** [November 24, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/epel-fedora-packages-info/13990 "2013-11-24T19:00:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![nirik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/nirik/32/686_2.png) [@nirik](https://forum.ansible.com/u/nirik)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/epel-fedora-packages-info/13990/1 "2013-11-24T19:00:40Z")

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Just thought I would send a short note to the list about epel and  
fedora packages for those that are using them. There seems to be a bit  
of confusion about when they are available, etc.

- I've been building new ansible versions into all supported Fedora  
&nbsp;&nbsp;branches and epel-6 usually within an hour of release.

- If you are in a hurry, you can get them from the Fedora buildsystem  
&nbsp;&nbsp;as soon as they are done building:

[http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=13842](http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=13842)

(Note that although these are the official packages, they are not  
signed yet from the buildsystem if that is important to you).

- As soon as builds are done, I submit updates:

[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/ansible](https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/ansible)

- Usually the next day all those updates are signed and are pushed out  
&nbsp;&nbsp;to Fedora updates-testing repos / epel-testing repos.

At this point you can use the (signed) package with a simple:

Fedora:  
yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update ansible

or

EPEL/RHEL/CentOS/SL:  
yum --enablerepo=epel-testing update ansible

- The amount of time the updates spends in testing varies. For EPEL  
&nbsp;&nbsp;it's 2 weeks \_or\_ when the update gets +3 karma. You can login and  
&nbsp;&nbsp;add karma at the above updates site if the package works for you.  
&nbsp;&nbsp;Such karma/testing is very welcome!

- As soon as the updates get enough karma or spend enough time, I  
&nbsp;&nbsp;request them to go stable and they appear in the next days stable  
&nbsp;&nbsp;updates compose.

Hope that clears up the process/timeline.

kevin