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

Tue Sep 2 16:05:49 UTC 2014
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

On 09/02/2014 03:01 PM, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org
> <mailto:jperrin at centos.org>> 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.
> 
> 
> I think it's also worth considering if you want %config or
> %config(noreplace) for the .repo file in the package.  We touched on
> this briefly in the EPEL meeting and Ansii opened a bug to track it:
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135576
> 
> FWIW, epel-release-6 is %config(noreplace) on the repo file -- meaning
> it won't overwrite user-modified repo files.  It might be worthwhile to
> have %config for the initial release of epel-release-7 (specifically to
> ensure that "gpgcheck=1" gets added), but after that I'd rather see it
> as "noreplace".  I'll comment on the bug to see if we can get that
> sorted out.

that would be a good thing to get in - i think the config files should
survive a rpm update for site customisations.


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