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

[Mike < >]

Bryan,

Most of our deployments require any number of packages that aren't in
RHEL default, and EPL has them. So adding EPEL via "yum::epel" is one
of our first-called recipes.

-Mike

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Jamie Winsor 
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 wrote:
> Bryan,
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> 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.
>
> --
> Jamie Winsor
> @resetexistence
> https://github.com/reset
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> On Friday, November 16, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Bryan McLellan wrote:
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> 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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> Bryan McLellan | opscode | technical program manager, open source
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