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

Am 26.06.2014 00:28, schrieb Jim Perrin:
> 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?
>
+1 from my side
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Christoph Galuschka
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