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

[Stephen John Smoogen <smooge gmail com>]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Adam Miller
<maxamillion fedoraproject org> wrote:
> 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
>

We should take a poll on the list and finalize on Friday meeting.



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Stephen J Smoogen.

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