[CentOS-devel] submit a RPM

Tue Apr 5 14:26:50 UTC 2011
Jeff Sheltren <jeff at osuosl.org>

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Itamar Reis Peixoto
<itamar at ispbrasil.com.br> wrote:
>>
>> You can always create your own repository and include it on your servers.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marian
>
> don't do this.
>
> contribute to fedora-epel, other people can use your packages and help
> testing / maintaining it.

In the case where you are over-writing/updating a core (or popular)
package, then creating your own repository can make sense.  If you are
adding a new package which isn't already in CentOS or one of the
popular 3rd party repos, then contributing it to an existing repo is
usually better.

-Jeff