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

Tue Sep 2 16:37:47 UTC 2014
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

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)?

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   Les Mikesell
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