Dumb question. Can't we identify the source of the package by looking at the signature. On 7/28/07, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, JC Júnior wrote: > > > I received a message about EPEL repository, I would like to know if this > repo > > is long term support too. > > Let me add that an effort to make sure EPEL is compatible with RPMforge > failed as EPEL wants to become the only repository for RHEL and there is > no interest to consider current RPMforge users. > > EPEL refused the repotag, so one cannot easily identify where a package > comes from and mixing repositories becomes harder. Since compatibility is > a 2 way interaction and EPEL shows no interest, it is certain that mixing > EPEL with other repositories may break something. > > Also EPEL's Fedora legacy makes EPEL closer to Fedora's Extras packages > than they are with RPMforge's packages, which can lead to problems with > eg. nagios-plugins or clamav packages. > > I already foresee a lot of frustration caused by bug-reports that make it > not clear that packages come from EPEL (much like in the Fedora era where > Fedora Extras packages caused problems with RPMforge that were hard to > identify or fix). > > Also, EPEL packages only exist for RHEL4 and RHEL5, resp 340 and 600 > projects while RPMforge builds for RHEL2, RHEL3, RHEL4 and RHEL5, > about 3400 projects. We however do not provide any PPC packages. > > As always, be careful what you enable and cherry pick rather than enable > fully. > > PS Within a corporate environment, look at the mrepo tool for managing > repositories and cherry picking packages for deploying and managing > systems. Do not enable repositories company wide ! > > -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- > [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Drew Einhorn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070728/496da463/attachment-0005.html>