[CentOS-devel] RDO on CentOS

On 06/17/2014 07:41 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Rich Bowen" <rbowen at redhat.com>
>> To: centos-devel at centos.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, 17 June, 2014 3:00:38 PM
>> Subject: [CentOS-devel] RDO on CentOS
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I work with the RDO project - http://openstack.redhat.com/ - where we're 
>> trying to make OpenStack as easy as possible to deploy on CentOS, RHEL, 
>> Fedora, et al. Since CentOS is (at least anecdotally) the leading 
>> platform that we're seeing used with RDO, we're wondering what we can do 
>> to make RDO easier to consume on CentOS, and, more generally, what we 
>> can do to make OpenStack easier on CentOS.
> 
> Personally when something is in EPEL or the base repo that's where I
> start trusting being able to install/use it. I realize that RDO likely
> changes a whole lot quicker than distros like RHEL/CentOS. So solving
> that so that you can have RDO packages in EPEL - perhaps in parallel
> (all in the repo but conflicting with each other or something). Would go
> a long way to getting people to try it I imagine.

At the last Centos dojo in Belgium I gave a talk on why the RDO repos exist,
and why OpenStack packages were moved _from_ EPEL:

  http://www.pixelbeat.org/talks/rdo_centos/

tl;dr Packages are in preferred in base or EPEL, but due to
various constraints ideally there is a repo hierarchy,
including Centos SIG repos, as shown in the above talk.

thanks,
Pádraig.