On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@karan.org> wrote:

>
> FWIW, epel-release-6 is %config(noreplace) on the repo file -- meaning
> it won't overwrite user-modified repo files. It might be worthwhile to
> have %config for the initial release of epel-release-7 (specifically to
> ensure that "gpgcheck=1" gets added), but after that I'd rather see it
> as "noreplace". I'll comment on the bug to see if we can get that
> sorted out.

that would be a good thing to get in - i think the config files should
survive a rpm update for site customisations.

I spoke with Jim about this on IRC and he and I are in agreement that it's best to sort it out within EPEL instead of having CentOS make any changes to the package.

-Jeff