On 07/09/2014 12:24 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 07/09/2014 02:37 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
hi,
We are going to need to find a way to address content in CentOS ( or well, content in EPEL ) where there are packages in centos that didnt come from rhel but are going to overlap with whats in EPEL.
Technically, this is a centos.org issue since EPEL's mandate requires them to not overlap with RHEL[1]. But with stuff going into CentOS-Extras/ and more content coming onboard from SIG's - and even from Core SIG - how are we going to address the overlap / flapping potential with EPEL ?
I am going to be pulling in cloud-init with a couple of deps, need to have these in the centos.org repos to do cloud instance builds.
- KB
[1]: I am not sure if EPEL cant overlap with base RHEL or with variants and layered products ?
The only real way to handle it is with excludes or priorities in the yum config files .. that, or some other thing like epochs or higher versions in the centos.org content to make it newer (assuming that is the goal).
I am hoping we can find a way to communicate this and sync with the epel folks in a manner that it does not cause too much issues. priorities will help i guess, but it will cause issues when people want to consume one and not the other ( either way ), specially when its down to libs