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

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?

--Brian