EPEL several yum priorities exclusions in el6 noticed

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:01:26 -0500
Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:

> During some of the testing for centos7 (and in the process cleaning up
> some things for c6 as well), we noticed that there are a number of
> packages that are excluded from epel when using the priorities plugin
> with yum.
> 
> While none of the packages is a duplicate for something in
> base/updates, I would imagine they're marked because they provide a
> common directory, such as  python's site-packages/ or similar. I'm
> not sure how much of a concern this would be, but it may be worth
> some investigation. There's a much smaller list for c7 as well, but I
> don't believe that's worth discussing yet as several are overlapping
> packages that have been (or should be) marked for removal as
> conflicts with RH's  -Extras repository.
> 
> To recreate this:
> Bare CentOS minimal install, fully updated.
> 
> yum install yum-plugin-priorities.noarch
> yum install
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
> 
> Set base, updates and extras to have a priority of 10. Set epel to
> have a priority of 20.
> 
> yum -d3 update
> 
> 
> This yields the following 86 packages:

Looking at srpms... 

Theres 57:

a2ps-4.14-10.1.el6.src.rpm
bakefile-0.2.8-3.el6.src.rpm
febootstrap-2.7-1.el6.src.rpm
freerdp-1.0.2-1.el6.src.rpm
ht2html-2.0-10.el6.src.rpm
html2ps-1.0-0.4.b5.el6.src.rpm
lzop-1.02-0.9.rc1.el6.src.rpm
osutil-1.3.1-3.el6.1.src.rpm
perl-B-Keywords-1.09-3.1.el6.src.rpm
perl-Class-Accessor-0.31-0.6.1.el6.src.rpm
perl-Class-Data-Inheritable-0.08-0.3.1.el6.src.rpm
perl-Class-MethodMaker-2.15-2.el6.src.rpm
perl-Class-Trigger-0.13-2.1.el6.src.rpm
perl-Config-Simple-4.59-5.el6.src.rpm
perl-DateTime-Format-DateParse-0.05-4.el6.src.rpm
perl-Devel-Cycle-1.10-3.1.el6.src.rpm
perl-Exception-Class-1.29-1.1.el6.src.rpm
perl-File-pushd-1.00-0.3.1.el6.src.rpm
perl-Font-AFM-1.20-3.1.el6.src.rpm
perl-HTML-Format-2.04-11.1.el6.src.rpm
perl-IO-Tty-1.08-3.el6.src.rpm
perl-IPC-Run-0.84-1.el6.src.rpm
perl-Locale-Maketext-Gettext-1.27-12.el6.src.rpm
perl-Locale-PO-0.21-2.1.el6.src.rpm
perl-MIME-Lite-3.027-2.el6.src.rpm
perl-MIME-Types-1.28-2.el6.src.rpm
perl-Module-Find-0.08-3.el6.src.rpm
perl-Net-SMTP-SSL-1.01-4.el6.src.rpm
perl-PadWalker-1.9-1.el6.src.rpm
perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.965-1.el6.src.rpm
perl-Perl-Critic-1.105-2.el6.src.rpm
perl-Pod-Spell-1.01-6.1.el6.src.rpm
perl-String-Format-1.15-2.1.el6.src.rpm
perl-Syntax-Highlight-Engine-Kate-0.04-5.1.el6.src.rpm
perl-Term-ProgressBar-2.09-8.el6.src.rpm
perl-Test-Memory-Cycle-1.04-7.1.el6.src.rpm
perl-Test-Perl-Critic-1.01-7.1.el6.src.rpm
perl-Test-Spelling-0.11-5.1.el6.src.rpm
perl-UNIVERSAL-can-1.15-1.el6.src.rpm
perl-UNIVERSAL-isa-1.03-1.el6.src.rpm
perl-XML-TokeParser-0.05-2.1.el6.src.rpm
perl-XML-Writer-0.606-6.el6.src.rpm
pexpect-2.3-5.el6.src.rpm
pki-symkey-1.3.2-3.el6.1.src.rpm
PyPAM-0.5.0-11.el6.src.rpm
python-empy-3.3-5.el6.src.rpm
python-ipaddr-2.1.10-2.el6.src.rpm
python-krbV-1.0.90-1.el6.src.rpm
python-suds-0.4.1-1.el6.src.rpm
python-tw-forms-0.9.9-3.el6.src.rpm
python-urwid-0.9.9.1-1.el6.src.rpm
scl-utils-20120229-1.el6.src.rpm
scons-2.0.1-1.el6.src.rpm
snappy-1.0.5-1.el6.src.rpm
wordnet-3.0-13.el6.src.rpm
wxGTK-2.8.12-1.el6.src.rpm
xerces-c-3.0.1-0.20.1.el6.src.rpm

Of those, there are 6 that are also available on ppc: 

perl-MIME-Lite-3.027-2.el6.src.rpm
perl-MIME-Types-1.28-2.el6.src.rpm
perl-Net-SMTP-SSL-1.01-4.el6.src.rpm
perl-UNIVERSAL-can-1.15-1.el6.src.rpm
perl-UNIVERSAL-isa-1.03-1.el6.src.rpm
perl-XML-Writer-0.606-6.el6.src.rpm

I think these might need blocking. 

Of the other 51, I guess we need to figure out which are deliberate
for limited arch support and which are accidental. 

kevin
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