[CentOS-devel] Shipping an EPEL release

Ljubomir Ljubojevic office at plnet.rs
Tue Oct 9 21:40:37 UTC 2012


On 10/09/2012 11:20 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Jeff Sheltren<jeff at tag1consulting.com>  wrote:
>
>> This isn't true, provided that the file is marked as config(noreplace)
>> in the rpm -- which is the case for at least epel-release on EL6 which
>> I've just verified -- local changes will not be overwritten, but
>> instead the RPM will install the new config with a .rpmnew extension.
>
> For anyone's reference, that is also the case for elrepo-release [
> config(noreplace) in the spec ].
>
> Akemi

OK, thanks guys. I have not used maintainer provided repo files in 
couple of years, I made set of my own repo files and I exclude all 
*-release files so they do not meddle in my yum config.


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