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

Tue Sep 2 18:16:40 UTC 2014
Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com>

On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 20:10:05 +0200
Michael Lampe <mlampe0 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 
> > EPEL is 'best effort'. ...
> 
> Correct. Some things will always be delayed or are actually never
> done. That's why I have configured priorities also for epel and
> suggested to do something like this for the centos copy.
> 
> > * Folks actually filing bugs when they see overlapping packages so
> > we can remove them from epel (instead of posting about them where
> >    maintainers are unlikely to see them and retire their epel
> > packages).
> 
> epel 5 has about 100 and epel 6 has about 75 packages filtered out
> with respect to base by priorities. With this in mind I wasn't
> expecting anything different from epel 7. So: please forgive me for
> not having filed these and the 175 ones before.

it's actually also not that simple. 

A number of these are added to epel because rhel doesn't ship them on
all arches. 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL:Packaging#Limited_Arch_Packages

So, all those need filtering out first. 

kevin
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