[CentOS] Creating a Centos endorsed 3rd part repo

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On 20/05/11 15:57, Keith Roberts wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2011, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>
>> To: centos at centos.org
>> From: Bowie Bailey<Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com>
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Creating a Centos endorsed 3rd part repo
>>
>> On 5/20/2011 10:15 AM, John Hodrien wrote:
>>> On Fri, 20 May 2011, Keith Roberts wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm sure they would Ned. But I want to learn how to do the
>>>> whole repository thing myself - not just build packages for
>>>> another very good 3rd party repo.
>>> There really is nothing to creating a repo that's hard in itself.
>>> createrepo/mrepo an rpmsign and you're done.
>>>
>>> By all means do that for internal use, but I'd second the suggestion that you
>>> find a way of contributing your packages to an existing repo rather than start
>>> your own.
>>
>> I'll second that suggestion.  The more 3rd party repos that you add to
>> the yum config, the more possible conflicts you open yourself up to.
>> Besides, it's easier to find packages if they are all in one or two
>> places rather than spread out across several small repos.
>
> OK. I am listening to all your comments. My repo would be
> using dependencies probably from the other centos repos,
> like ATrpms, remi, EPEL, et al. If they needed any that is.
>

Which is an excellent reason for having your package(s) in one of those 
repos so they are built against the necessary dependencies if they are 
not already a part of CentOS.

Otherwise you will simply be yet another example of why mixing different 
3rd party repos (generally) doesn't work.