On 4/6/2011 4:47 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 04/06/2011 04:56 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Are there any guidelines as to what should be in centosplus as opposed
>> to some third party repo usable by RHEL, centos, and other rebuilds?
>
> Do we need to have a policy about other repo's :) I guess the only
> policy might be : let them do what they think is right for them.
Other repo's _may_ respect upstream and not overwrite base packages or
create conflicts. However, they aren't going to consider CentOS
"upstream". And I think there is evidence that what is right for them
is not going to be right for Centos users that have base/extra/plus
packages that don't match or conflict with what they consider upstream.
So, yes, unless you want to ensure conflicts with the repos that CentOS
users depend on, you need a policy that minimizes collisions.
Personally, I don't see the point of having anything in a
CentOS-specific repo that would be equally usable on RHEL, SL, etc., and
having it there will set up a likely conflict with an EPEL or Rpmforge
version unless they are maintained in sync. Things that use the extra
features of the centosplus kernel would be an obvious exception and
there are probably others.
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Les Mikesell
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