[CentOS-devel] Creating a CentOS-only package

[Kay Williams]

But these newer versions are not really CentOS-only? They could be used with
RHEL if someone wanted/needed them?

Perhaps point users to the newer versions in the OpenStack (RDO) repos? Or
create a separate qpid repo where newer versions can always be had (for use
with either CentOS or RHEL)?

Seems cleaner (IMHO) than muddling the packages with a general repo like
centos-plus.

Maybe the question is whether CentOS is providing a general solution for
hosting repositories for newer-than-rhel packages?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-devel-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-
> bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Darryl L. Pierce
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 1:28 PM
> To: The CentOS developers mailing list.
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Creating a CentOS-only package
> 
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 09:01:53PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > the easy way of doing this would be to drop it into the Plus repo,
> > that allows anything ( including stuff that over writes and replaces
> > components from inside the base os repos ). however, that means that
> > any other code that requires or benefits from the newer qpid would
> > need to rely on the Plus repo ( and thereby potentially expose all
> > packages, not just qpid, to the install ). Unless some sort of
> > includepkg / excludepkg is done ( is messy, but many people can live
> with it ).
> >
> > With that in mind, what sort of use cases are you trying to target -
> i
> > dont think we really quantified that in the prev thread.
> 
> The general use cases are projects, such as Open Stack, that are
> targeting CentOS and who would want to use an AMQP 1.0 messaging
> interface, like Open Stack.
> 
> We're also of course looking for more avenues for adoption of the Qpid
> and Proton projects and AMQP as a standard.
> 
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