[CentOS-devel] Adding the EPEL release package to the extras repository

[Nux!]

Hi,

Great news. Installing epel-release is the first thing I do after a minimal install. :-)

Does this apply to v6, too?

Lucian



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Perrin" <jperrin at centos.org>
> To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel at centos.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, 25 June, 2014 11:28:16 PM
> Subject: [CentOS-devel] Adding the EPEL release package to the extras	repository
> 
> In the discussions for putting CentOS 7 together, the board's agreed to
> make the epel-release package available in the centos-extras repository
> as part of the el7 build.
> 
> 
> What this means:
> 
> The EPEL repository will NOT be enabled by default, but it will be
> available. Following an install, an admin would be able to 'yum install
> epel-release'. Following the success of that command, they could then
> use epel normally.
> 
> 
> In order to accomplish this without having yum complain, we will re-sign
> the epel-release package with the centos key. The EPEL gpg keys will
> remain intact in the file included, so yum will prompt and import
> normally on the first package installed via EPEL.
> 
> 
> Are there any objections to this before we execute?
> 
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> Jim Perrin
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