On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com wrote:
EPEL is 'best effort'. If you would like to help us, you are welcome to do so. Some things that could help us:
Then do you mind adding that to the policy statement - that people can't count on not overwriting base packages?
Sure, I can bring that up at our next meeting.
Thanks - I've been burned before by EPEL's tendency to add packages long after they have been available in other 3rd party repositories but with different/conflicting configurations, but had so far just taken it on faith that there would not be conflicts with base packages.
But - can someone familiar with repository maintenance tools comment on the metadata available and the difficulty of doing conflict checking across multiple repos?