On 06/27/2014 04:35 PM, Dan Porter wrote: > My main concern would be that it would give an implicit approval of all > EPEL packages for CentOS 7. That also implies that we would support > EPEL packages in the IRC channel and other forums even though CentOS has > no control over those packages at all. > > Remember that by installing the ‘release’ package from any repository, > you implicitly agree to the terms they provide in their license. I don’t > think we’ll have to support EPEL as a result (just support for the > release package itself) > > Dan > > > > > On 26 June 2014 21:53, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs > <mailto:centos at plnet.rs>> wrote: > > On 06/26/2014 02:28 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On 06/25/2014 06:30 PM, Peter wrote: > >> On 06/26/2014 10:28 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: > >>> 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. > >>> > >>> Are there any objections to this before we execute? > >> My main concern would be that it would give an implicit approval > of all > >> EPEL packages for CentOS 7. That also implies that we would support > >> EPEL packages in the IRC channel and other forums even though > CentOS has > >> no control over those packages at all. > >> > >> On the flip side it also means that to be fair CentOS should > include the > >> -release packages for other third-party repositories as well. > > > > We would come up with a process for other repos, yes. But we have to > > start somewhere and EPEL is the one the board thinks we should > start with. > > > > WRT the IRC support, we can redirect people to #epel if it is related > > specifically to packaging, etc .. and we can support other things > > (assuming someone knows the info) in #centos. We should likely > support > > more things in #centos anyway :) > > > > When Board discusses other repositories, please keep in mind addition of > priority=x (and maybe yum-plugin-priorities), and maybe some tool to > easily change priorities (for those wanting non-vanila priorities). > Changing default priority (without priority line) to 20 or some other > number would make sure repos without priority line would not mess with > configured ones. > > EPEL and other 3rd party repositories with lesser priority then > base/updates + plugin would be very safe. > > If centos-release gets priority=1 line for base/updates repositories, and included yum-plugin-priorities is modified to include default priority value = 20 (when there is no priority= line), then ANY repo (including EPEL) will have default 20 and will not be able to override any repository that centos is releasing (with priority=1 line). -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant