[CentOS-devel] Shipping Build Tools in one of the CentOS Repos

[Karanbir Singh]

On 04/12/14 16:20, Brian Stinson wrote:
> On Dec 01 09:52, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Brian Stinson <bstinson at ksu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I would like to start a discussion on where/how to ship the package
>>> building toolchain. Most of these tools shipped in EPEL, but deploying
>>> them to one of our repos would allow us to maintain our own patches if
>>> necessary and would eliminate any dependencies on 3rd party repositories
>>> for our core tools.
>>>
>>
>> I'd much rather not do this for a couple reasons:
>> 1. CentOS Extras shouldn't overlap with EPEL.
>> 2. If there are reasons to customize/patch some of these things for the
>> CentOS infrastructure, perhaps they belong in a new/separate repo --
>> especially considering centos-extras is enabled by default.
> 
> Good points. Would a separate cbs-tools repo, with a cbs-tools-release
> package in CentOS-Extras be acceptable?

that might work, but why do we not want centos-extras to overlap EPEL ?
Iirc, it already does this.

- KB


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