On 29/09/15 17:35, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 09/28/2015 10:58 AM, Carl George wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> There are several "release" packages in the Extras
repository for SIGs and >> third party repositories. >> >> centos-release-virt-common >> centos-release-openstack >> epel-release
EPEL is a special case .. as voted on by the CentOS Board. > >
Other ones are SIGs .. which is the way to get a release file into extras. > > >> Currently there are no guidelines for other third party repositories to be >> included, so I wrote this document. >> >> https://wiki.centos.org/CarlGeorge/CATPR >> > > I am certainly open to discussion .. however, there exists a way to make > this happen. We start a Hosting SIG and those RPMs get put in there and > built on our CBS.
That appears to rule out elrepo and IUS ever being allowed to get into extras which seems like a change of policy from before when it was: "come up with some criteria by which we can make impartial decisions". In both cases, they do not target CentOS alone, they exist to serve the entire EL community. Making them build in CBS would then rule out their repos being used on RHEL and/or SL. I don't think this is a good idea either.
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