[CentOS-devel] @ SIG Openstack / Centos8 repos colliding

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 7:23 AM Matthias Runge <mrunge at matthias-runge.de> wrote:
>
> On 23/04/2020 19:12, lejeczek via CentOS-devel wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Here some bits being in collision:
> >
> > virglrenderer.src
> > 0.6.0-5.20180814git491d3b705.el8
> > advanced-virt
> > virglrenderer.x86_64
> > 0.6.0-5.20180814git491d3b705.el8
> > advanced-virt
> > virglrenderer.x86_64
> > 0.8.0-1.20191002git4ac3a04c.el8                                 epel
> >
> > Please push as much as you can over to EPEL. It's way to often that EPEL
> > gets unnecessary confronted by extras/third-parties repos while it
> > should be taken advantage of.
> >
>
> I disagree here. If something is in centos repos (or RHEL for that
> matter), the package should not be in epel.
>

SIG repos do not qualify here. As SIG repos can do basically anything,
including override CentOS base packages, it's not a mark to block
inclusion in EPEL. They also don't necessarily map cleanly to RHEL
content, either.




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