[CentOS-devel] Adding the EPEL release package to the extras repository

Thu Jun 26 00:31:44 UTC 2014
Jeff Sheltren <jeff at tag1consulting.com>

On Jun 25, 2014 3:28 PM, "Jim Perrin" <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:
>
> In the discussions for putting CentOS 7 together, the board's agreed to
> make the epel-release package available in the centos-extras repository
> as part of the el7 build.
>
>
> What this means:
>
> The EPEL repository will NOT be enabled by default, but it will be
> available. Following an install, an admin would be able to 'yum install
> epel-release'. Following the success of that command, they could then
> use epel normally.
>
>
> In order to accomplish this without having yum complain, we will re-sign
> the epel-release package with the centos key. The EPEL gpg keys will
> remain intact in the file included, so yum will prompt and import
> normally on the first package installed via EPEL.
>
>
> Are there any objections to this before we execute?
>

This sounds good to me.

-Jeff
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20140625/8e553d26/attachment-0007.html>