Re: How to prevent accidental EPEL updates of RHEL-core packages?

[Karanbir Singh]

On 04/27/2012 04:14 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > Is there any check in place to prevent updates breaking the rule
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#Policy_for_Conflic...
> > ?
>
> Nope. We have talked about setting something up, but it's not trivial
> to implement. ;( If you want to work on it, happy to help.

Wonder what the challenges are... it should be mostly just a case of a
white/black list matching on ${name}. We already do this against
CentOS/EPEL for both src.rpm content and binary content in i386/x86_64 (
and hopefully powerpc soon )

- KB