Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 31.10.2007 16:14, Perry N. Myers wrote: >> I am working on a project that requires EPEL RPMs as part of the installation >> process. > > Sounds interesting. > > /me wonders what this exatly is about, but I suppose you'll tell us > sooner or later.
The details of what we're doing are still under wraps, but there is work underway to make things more public. :) >> We also need to support environments where the target machines are >> disconnected from the Internet. My question is, how would you (the EPEL >> maintainers) prefer to have these packages distributed? Here are the >> options as >> I see them: >> >> 1. Include the needed EPEL RPMS on our distribution media. >> 2. Include the epel-release RPM only and provide instructions for setting up >> a >> local EPEL mirror and modifying the epel.repo file to point to that local >> mirror. > > Hmmm, why not simply do both? E.g. the epel-packages as part of your > distribution media including the repo files for epel. Then users get > (security) updates when EPEL releases them. And those that want the > packages locally can set up a local epel mirror. That sounds good to me. Thanks for the feedback. Perry _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
