Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
On 06.09.2007 15:08, Mike McGrath wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>
>> z00dax in #centos-devel made me aware of a issue: EPEL5-testing contains
>> a yum-cron package since a few days which replaces the package with the
>> same name from CentOS-base.
>>
>> As we try to not conflict with CentOS-base I'd say we go the same route
>> as we did for yum in EPEL4 -- ship the CentOS package with a lower EVR;
>> then users that want to use the package on RHEL5 can use it while we
>> don't disturb CenOS.
>>
>> Comments?
>>
> Its a package in CentOS-base but not RHEL?
>
>
Yes:
[root@dhcp-200 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga)
[root@dhcp-200 ~]# yum list yum* | grep cron
[root@dhcp-200 ~]#
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/centos/5.0/os/x86_64/CentOS/...
One of course could argue "If CentOS wants to be 100% compatible to RHEL
then they should not add something to their Base OS that's not strictly
needed" -- but I suppose some people would send out the Nijas after
someone that dares to say that.
meh, I don't think we need to be in the business of telling CentOS what
to do :)
+1 to lower EVR I guess unless there's a compelling reason not to that
I'm not thinking of. I wonder if we could get a list of all packages
CentOS has added. If they've added them, odds are they're popular
enough that we'll likely add them as well.
-Mike