I have worked on this a bit more, fixed a few typos, and clarified some parts. In particular, I added a sentence pointing out that not all 3rd party repos necessarily work with each other. Here is the link again. https://gist.github.com/cgtx/b854281462a18007f509 If no one has further suggestions for edits, what is the next step to make it official? Carl George Rackspace RPM Development ________________________________________ From: centos-devel-bounces at centos.org <centos-devel-bounces at centos.org> on behalf of Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 07:05 PM To: The CentOS developers mailing list. Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] including 3rd party repo release RPMs in Extras On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro> wrote: > On 03/30/2015 10:29 PM, Peter wrote: >> >> On 03/31/2015 07:37 AM, Carl George wrote: >>> >>> How does this phrasing work for yall? >>> >>> * If the repository has the potential to replace stock packages when >>> `yum update` is run, it must be disabled by default. >>> * If the repository is disabled by default, comments must be included >>> in the repo file to explain why. >> >> That works for me :-) >> >> > +1 from me This seems sane. It also helps protect from components that would not replace, but obsolete other components. _______________________________________________ CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel