[CentOS-devel] Creating a CentOS-only package

Kay Williams kay at deployproject.org
Tue May 13 21:59:02 UTC 2014


Perhaps an 'epel-plus' repo would make sense (someday)? Or an epel service
for hosting misc repos for newer-than-rhel packages.

Not a big deal, just mulling that the qpid packages are not centos-specific
(sorry, I know this is the centos-devel mailing list)...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-devel-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-
> bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 1:55 PM
> To: centos-devel at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Creating a CentOS-only package
> 
> On 05/13/2014 09:39 PM, Kay Williams wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> thats what Plus is for - a generic repo, the SIGs can chose to run
> their own if they want
> 
> 
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