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

Tue Sep 2 16:24:07 UTC 2014
Michael Lampe <mlampe0 at googlemail.com>

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:

# 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.

-Michael