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

[Jeffrey Hulten < >]

Often I need things from EPEL but I also tend to create my own YUM mirror so 
I know what versions I am getting if I bring up a new box. In this case 
adding a repo would circumvent my controls.
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On Nov 16, 2012, at 9:56 PM, Tim Smith wrote:

> 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
>> 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)?
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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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