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

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Michael Lampe <mlampe0 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>> What about some kind of preconfigured protection of base repositories? Epel
>> doesn't live up to their own standards of not replacing system packages:
>>
>> # yum -d3 update | grep epel
>>
>>   --> advancecomp-1.19-1.el7.x86_64 from epel excluded (priority)
> (etc.)
>
> Isn't this something that should really be automated with some kind of
> scanning at the repository level (for both package and file name
> conflicts)?
>

What if some package from epel gets included by RH with an update? This 
happened several times in the past and epel always kept their package 
available, even if had a higher version number than the now official RH 
package.

-Michael