On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:43:50 -0600 inode0 <ino...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote: > > I've now marked these dead.package and blocked them in epel6. > > This bz has been sitting around for over 4 months now and is the only > obvious remaining case where an epel package stomps on a base RHEL6 > package - perhaps someone can clean it up now too? > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867669 > > The following packages in epel currently have the same version as the > same package in RHEL6 which can and does cause issues when the RHEL6 > package isn't installed already. New installs and dependencies pull in > the epel versions in a "defaultish" configuration. I don't see what > purpose they really serve being in epel so if some of them can be > removed that would be swell too. > > a2ps > emacs-a2ps > emacs-a2ps-el > html2ps > libart_lgpl > lzop > perl-B-Keywords > perl-Class-Accessor > perl-Class-Data-Inheritable > perl-Class-Trigger > perl-Devel-Cycle > perl-Email-Date-Format > perl-Exception-Class > perl-File-Copy-Recursive > perl-Font-AFM > perl-HTML-Format > perl-Locale-PO > perl-MIME-Lite > perl-MIME-Types > perl-Module-Find > perl-Net-SMTP-SSL > perl-PadWalker > perl-Perl-Critic > perl-Pod-Spell > perl-String-Format > perl-Syntax-Highlight-Engine-Kate > perl-Test-Memory-Cycle > perl-Test-Perl-Critic > perl-UNIVERSAL-can > perl-UNIVERSAL-isa > perl-XML-TokeParser > perl-XML-Writer > ruby-shadow > scons > xhtml2ps
Several of those perl packages are mine, dating back to the RHEL 6 beta, when we needed them for full arch support. What we did at the time was to rebuild the exact same package as RHEL to put in EPEL. I appreciate that that's not current policy and we'll do it differently for EPEL-7. I'm sure I've suggested this before but I don't see why the epel-release package can't add a "cost" of >1000 (e.g. 1001) to the epel repos so that identical packages would always be picked up from RHEL in preference to EPEL. Paul. _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list epel-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
