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? > > -- > Jim Perrin > The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org > twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >