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- Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?
- Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 02:56:17 +0000
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Most everything we try to do requires EPEL so we have it enabled on
anything in Redhat-land.
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On 11/16/12 1:51 PM, "Eric G. Wolfe"
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I can't speak for everyone on RHEL/CentOS, but I think there is at least
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one-off package from EPEL on every one of our systems. When writing a
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community cookbook, I never assume the end user has EPEL enabled, it
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does need to be coded into the recipe (or at least included via
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yum::epel). When I opened COOK-1772, the goal was to make that a
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uniform pattern which makes use of the yum::repository LWRP.
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Unfortunately I think there are still multiple issues with the yum
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cookbook on Amazon Linux, thanks to their platform_version differences.
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This isn't directly related to your question, but shouldn't EL family
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platforms return a consistent version number (OHAI-321)?
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Eric G. Wolfe
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On 11/16/2012 04:29 PM, Bryan McLellan wrote:
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> Would you be surprised if you ran a community cookbook for a piece of
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> software and it configured EPEL to do so?
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> It seems like getting most things done requires it, but we haven't made
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> global pattern yet to override the use of EPEL yet.
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> If everyone just uses EPEL, then it is a moot point.
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- [chef] Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?, Bryan McLellan, 11/16/2012
- [chef] Re: Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?, Jamie Winsor, 11/16/2012
- [chef] Re: Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?, Bryan Berry, 11/16/2012
- [chef] Re: Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?, Eric G. Wolfe, 11/16/2012
- [chef] Re: Re: Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?, Tim Smith, 11/16/2012
- [chef] Re: Re: Re: Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?, Jeffrey Hulten, 11/17/2012
- [chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?, Joshua Buysse, 11/17/2012
- [chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?, steve ., 11/20/2012
- [chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?, Eric G. Wolfe, 11/20/2012
- [chef] Re: Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?, David Petzel, 11/20/2012
- [chef] Re: Re: Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?, Joshua Timberman, 11/20/2012
- [chef] Re: Re: Re: Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?, Eric G. Wolfe, 11/20/2012
- [chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?, Eric G. Wolfe, 11/20/2012
- [chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?, Nguyen, Dang, 11/21/2012
- [chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?, steve ., 11/21/2012
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