"Jim Perrin" jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
This also causes a related issue for RHEL users who want to use yum. In posts to the yum mailing list, it's often recommended that RHEL users grab yum from the centos repositories. As of the 4.4 release, they can no longer do this as yum requires yumconf, provided by centos-release, which will overwrite their /etc/redhat-release, and /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources files among others. This either keeps them from using our yum packages, or forces them to migrate to centos which they may not be aware of if they install centos-release without thinking it through.
We've been using CentOS' yum on RHEL in conjunction with an empty RPM that provides yumconf. Having centos-release provide yumconf seems to complicate this without giving any particular advantage.
I see this as an interoperability issue, and it should be discussed a bit. I'm not convinced that a yumconf package is the way to go, but providing the files in centos-release doesn't seem to be the right way either. Other opinions?
I'd be happy to revert having a separate yumconf package, unless anyone has a better solution.
Ron