Re: yum-cron and CentOS

[Mike McGrath <mmcgrath redhat com>]

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/yum-cron-0.1-1.el5.centos.noarch.rpm
>
> 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