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

[Joshua Buysse < >]

In that case, I'd fork the yum cookbook locally and override the epel recipe 
to do what I want with a local repo. For a cookbook, activating epel is the 
best general solution - if you're one of the small percentage that won't work 
for, it's easy enough to replace without problem as long as the cookbook uses 
yum::epel. 

I would do the same thing for anything involving rpmforge, for example. I 
have a few packages that I rebuilt/resigned locally, but I haven't run in to 
that with a cookbook yet. 

On Nov 17, 2012, at 9:11, Jeffrey Hulten 
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> 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:
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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
>>> 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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