+1 for removing it from EPEL, or at least have it in fewer places. As for the default user, there have been many discussions, at this point I don't care any more; I'm using "root" for my deployments. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pádraig Brady" <pbrady at redhat.com> > To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel at centos.org> > Cc: "Perry Myers" <pmyers at redhat.com>, "Alan Pevec" <apevec at redhat.com> > Sent: Monday, 1 December, 2014 19:04:49 > Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] cloud-init in CentOS > On 05/05/14 18:30, Sam Kottler wrote: >> >> On 5/5/14, 11:28 PM, Nux! wrote: >>> On 05.05.2014 18:24, Sam Kottler wrote: >>>> During the cloud instance SIG meeting today we talked about future >>>> plans >>>> for cloud-init in CentOS. Right now cloud-init is included as part of >>>> EPEL and that's where most CentOS users consume it from. The problem >>>> is >>>> that cloud-init and related bits are critical for building images to >>>> run >>>> on a public or private cloud, and we need to build early guest >>>> initialization tools into the cloud images we produce. Ideally this >>>> does >>>> not include adding EPEL or packages from EPEL which have not been >>>> rebuilt in our build systems. >>>> >>>> So, the proposal that there's general consensus upon within the SIG is >>>> to maintain cloud-init, its dependencies, and any related packages on >>>> git.centos.org and rebuild them ourselves. I'm one of the maintainers >>>> in >>>> EPEL so I offered to maintain the git repos for CentOS, anyone else >>>> who >>>> would like to be involved in more than welcome to step up. >>>> >>>> Thoughts, questions, concerns? >>> Thanks Sam. I guess the main concern for me is - as a lot of people are >>> using EPEL - to make sure the version is EPEL is in some kind of sync, >>> or at least if higher version that it won't mess up stuff. >> >> I think we'd ideally keep the packages in lock-step with one another to >> prevent versioning problems. The goal here isn't to diverge from EPEL, >> but rather to consolidate where the required packages 'live' across the >> different repos (CentOS vs. EPEL). > > I see the epel6 version has gotten out of sync. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168444 > > That probably requires syncing the following to EPEL: > https://git.centos.org/log/rpms!cloud-init/refs!heads!c6-extras > but changing things like the default user from centos to cloud-user > to align with RH-COMMON settings? > > However I was wondering about the general point of having > packages in RH-COMMON, EPEL (6 and 7), and the cloud instance sig > Should we consider dropping the EPEL versions, or do we need > to maintain them to handle settings like the default user etc.? > > thanks, > Pádraig. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel