RHEL6 beta repos for EPEL buildroots

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:45:26 -0500
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:

> Once upon a time, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> said:
> > Greetings. 
> > 
> > Currently EPEL-6 builds from two RHEL6 beta repos: 
> > 
> > 5.90Server Beta
> > and
> > 5.90Server Beta (Optional)
> > 
> > There are however a number more that exist: 
> > 
> > 5.90Workstation Beta
> > 5.90Workstation Beta (Optional)
> > Clustered Storage Beta
> > High Availability Beta
> > Large Filesystem Beta
> > Load Balance Beta
> > 
> > I don't think EPEL should duplicate anything from any of these repos
> > either, and I think they should also be available to build against. 
> > Would it be possible to add them to the external repos we build
> > against?
> 
> There was a discussion here about the RHEL layered products a while
> back, and IIRC the decision was that EPEL could duplicate/replace the
> layered products (and that the layered products couldn't be
> dependencies for EPEL).
> 
> So the first two in your list (the Workstation/Optional repos) should
> be added, but the others should not.

Is there any forecast for if/when this is going to happen? I have a bug
waiting on this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553142

I was intending to clone a package from the workstation optional
packages in EPEL but need to see if they are going to be included in
the buildroots instead.

Paul.