[CentOS-devel] including 3rd party repo release RPMs in Extras

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Carl George <carl.george at rackspace.com> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> My name is Carl, and I'm a developer for the IUS Community repository.
>
> CentOS users have easy access to the EPEL repo because the epel-release RPM is in the CentOS Extras repository.  Obviously CentOS and EPEL have a special relationship, since they are both sponsored by Red Hat.  A coworker suggested to me that it would be nice if the ius-release RPM could be included in Extras as well.  I brought the idea up in IRC, and Karanbir suggested I draft up a specification that any third party repository can follow to be considered for inclusion.  Here is what I have so far.
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> https://gist.github.com/cgtx/b854281462a18007f509
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> If this looks familiar, it's because I used the IUS SafeRepo Initiative as a starting point.  Please share your feedback and ideas.
>

Besides categorizing 3rd party repos into ones with/without policies
to not overwrite base packages, is there any chance of setting up a
central service that would do the equivalent of 'yum search' and 'yum
info' on a system with all of them enabled and show the results?

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    Les Mikesell
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