[chef] Re: Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?

[Jamie Winsor < >]

Bryan,

Our application cookbooks will enable EPEL if they are attempting to retrieve a package which requires it. The same goes for any of our library cookbooks which have a package contained there. We always make these cookbooks configurable, though, so you can instead retrieve your package out of a self hosted repository.

EPEL is more of a sensible default for us.

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Jamie Winsor

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On Friday, November 16, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Bryan McLellan wrote:

Would you be surprised if you ran a community cookbook for a piece of

software and it configured EPEL to do so?

It seems like getting most things done requires it, but we haven't made a

global pattern yet to override the use of EPEL yet.

If everyone just uses EPEL, then it is a moot point.

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