[CentOS-devel] RHEL Extras and what we might do with them

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Fabian Arrotin
<fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> wrote:
> On 17/06/14 18:06, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> So we now have RHEL media, RHEL optionals and RHEL Extras. Optionals and
>> media seems to tie in as before, however Extras has its own policy +
>> lifeterm etc.
>>
>> Thoughts on what we might do with those rpms ? I'd have though that
>> putting them in CentOS-Extras would line up nicely. Content that is
>> available out of the blocks to anyone with a CentOS install, but not
>> themselves included in the distro.
>>
>> thoughts ?
>>
>
> Well, my first reaction was "yeah, +1" like for other people who already
> answered.
> But I have to mitigate my anwer, as I see that "Extras (upstream one)
> has its own policy + lifeterm".
> Have we read that policy to be sure that packages that will appear in
> that repo will not overwrite base packages ? As, as I understand it,
> it's an additional repo/channel that people can decide to opt-in (not
> there by default) , which is not what we're doing, as our Extras repo
> comes with "enabled=1" .. or do we change it to "enabled=0" in our yum
> .repo file, so that people can easily opt-in if they want to ?

In addition/relation to that, because of the naming, users might think
'centos-extras' is a rebuild of 'rhel-extras'.

Akemi