On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:43:50 -0600 inode0 inode0@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com wrote:
I've now marked these dead.package and blocked them in epel6.
This bz has been sitting around for over 4 months now and is the only obvious remaining case where an epel package stomps on a base RHEL6 package - perhaps someone can clean it up now too?
Done.
The following packages in epel currently have the same version as the same package in RHEL6 which can and does cause issues when the RHEL6 package isn't installed already. New installs and dependencies pull in the epel versions in a "defaultish" configuration. I don't see what purpose they really serve being in epel so if some of them can be removed that would be swell too.
Some of these may be there for other arch support. Ie, RHEL only shipps them on x86_64, but we need them for i686 and ppc in order to support EPEL packages on those arches.
I'm not sure how to tell that unless we also filter out those packages only shipped on x86_64 from the list.
kevin