[CentOS-devel] submit a RPM

Thu Apr 7 01:48:58 UTC 2011
Jerry Amundson <jamundso at gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I would even vote for not picking up anything other than what upstream is
> doing. I much rather have more timely releases and updates, fastrack, and
> maybe other RHN channels (eg. EAL), than using those resources for
> extracurricular activities like DRBD packages, a centosplus kernel, etc...

+1
Diversify only if you have the resources. Or, if you can bring them
on-board if you don't have them.

jerry