[CentOS-devel] getting epel-release into CentOS-7- extras/

On 2 September 2014 10:24, Michael Lampe <mlampe0 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Jim Perrin wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 09/02/2014 08:16 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>
>>> hi
>>>
>>> now that EPEL has moved out of beta, what are the next steps needed to
>>> get epel-release included in CentOS-Extras.
>>>
>>> - KB
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Re-signing the package with the centos key, and then adding it to the
>> repo. I don't see a need to do anything else.
>>
>>
> What about some kind of preconfigured protection of base repositories?
> Epel doesn't live up to their own standards of not replacing system
> packages:
>
>
Ooops. I would have preferred to have learned of this on the mailing list
before we moved out of beta and also on the epel-devel list. I will work on
getting these cleaned up.


> # yum -d3 update | grep epel
>
>  --> advancecomp-1.19-1.el7.x86_64 from epel excluded (priority)
>  --> itstool-2.0.2-1.el7.noarch from epel excluded (priority)
>  --> libntlm-1.3-0.6.el7.x86_64 from epel excluded (priority)
>  --> libntlm-devel-1.3-0.6.el7.x86_64 from epel excluded (priority)
>  --> libvncserver-0.9.9-0.9.el7.x86_64 from epel excluded (priority)
>  --> libvncserver-devel-0.9.9-0.9.el7.x86_64 from epel excluded (priority)
>  --> perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5-1.3-0.16.el7.noarch from epel excluded
> (priority)
>  --> perl-LWP-Protocol-https-6.04-3.el7.noarch from epel excluded
> (priority)
>  --> perl-Mozilla-CA-20130114-4.el7.noarch from epel excluded (priority)
>  --> python-mako-0.7.3-1.el7.noarch from epel excluded (priority)
>  --> python-webob-1.2.3-8.el7.noarch from epel excluded (priority)
>
> # yum list python-webob
>
> Installed Packages
> python-webob.noarch 1.2.3-6.el7
>  @base
>
> And for epel 5 and epel 6 this list is much longer.
>
>
All I can say is '#%#@$@#D' and I am sorry. We just cleaned these up a
short time ago, and there was supposed to be a job which runs to make sure
these conflicts don't happen.



> -Michael
>
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Stephen J Smoogen.
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