Re: nagios shipped by RedHat, but in a specific subscription channel

[Adam Miller <maxamillion fedoraproject org>]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Adam Miller
> <maxamillion fedoraproject org> wrote:
>> Here's a proposal:
>>
>> Let's make an alteration to our current policy to something of the
>> effect that "we do not ship any package that has an openly available
>> RPM/SRPM located in any child directory of
>> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/ but we are unable to
>> verify that there will be no conflicts as not all channels are
>> published."
>>
>> Beyond that I don't think there is any realistic expectation of us to
>> know what we could potentially conflict with if the information is not
>> publicly available.
>>
>> -AdamM
>
> "EPEL is purely a complimentary add-on repository and does not replace
> packages in RHEL or layered products."
>
> to
>
> "EPEL is purely a complimentary add-on repository and does not replace
> packages in RHEL. [Package conflicts are determined by what is openly
> available from Red Hat's tree (currently located at
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/) ]
>
<SNIP>

I like it, +1 here. Should we put this to a vote at the next meeting
or do we want to take a poll here on the mailing list?

-AdamM

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