EPEL quick epel7 update

[Simone Caronni]

On 16 June 2014 21:29, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:12:57 +0200
> Simone Caronni <negativo17 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Another thing, there are packages that are spread into multiple
> > upstream optional channels that make it impossible to include some
> > packages in the distribution.
> >
> > One thread here:
> >
> >
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/epel-devel/2014-June/009600.html
> >
> > Releng ticket here:
> >
> > https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5915
>
> But thats NOT the case there... for some reason those packages aren't
> appearing in koji buildroots, but they _ARE_ in the base repos.
>
> So, there's a bug/issue there, but not the one you are thinking...
>
> I was hoping to have the final trees setup before trying to debug this.
>

Well, the example in the bug is not the exact "proof" but there are other
packages which are dispersed in the various channels, so I don't think
adding only server-7 and server-7-optional as it is now would suffice.

 I was about to point to the RC trees (which included all the variants) but
the link has been removed and in my Redhat account I only have Server and
RHEV available; so I can't point you to the example. :(

By memory there was Server, Server-optional, Workstation, Workstation
Optional, etc.

> As far as I know in CentOS all packages and subpackages are part of
> > the distribution, so this could be another reason to wait for the
> > CentOS release.
>
> I don't think I follow here.
>

In previous releases CentOS was inserting in the distribution all the
packages that make up the full spectrum of RHEL variants, so in version 6
it included for example the Workstation channel and a full Workstation was
installable for CentOS 6 (in fact all the content never fit into 1 dvd). As
far as I know they are not changing this policy.

By using CentOS as the basis and not RHEL 7 we could have all the channels
that are not used at the moment for building.

Regards,
--Simone

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