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

["Eric G. Wolfe" < >]

I can't speak for everyone on RHEL/CentOS, but I think there is at least 
one-off package from EPEL on every one of our systems.  When writing a 
community cookbook, I never assume the end user has EPEL enabled, it 
does need to be coded into the recipe (or at least included via 
yum::epel).  When I opened COOK-1772, the goal was to make that a 
uniform pattern which makes use of the yum::repository LWRP.

Unfortunately I think there are still multiple issues with the yum 
cookbook on Amazon Linux, thanks to their platform_version differences.  
This isn't directly related to your question, but shouldn't EL family 
platforms return a consistent version number (OHAI-321)?

Eric G. Wolfe
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On 11/16/2012 04:29 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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