[Fedora-packaging] Extras package enables 3rd party repository
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Oct 19 09:15:09 UTC 2006
Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Do we want to permit packages in Fedora Extras, which install and enable
> by default a 3rd party repository?
...
> $ rpm -qlvp clement-2.1-209.1.fc6.i386.rpm |grep yum
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 192 Sep 4 13:18 /etc/yum.repos.d/clement.repo
>
> Uhm... it's a package in Fedora Extras which installs and enables an
> external Yum repository for "updates". Highly questionable, since those
> updates ought to be provided within Fedora Extras.
>
> This asks for a new policy.
>
> Makes me wonder whether this has been like that during package review
> already or whether the packager added it later.
It was there at review time but not commented on:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176253
Paul.
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