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On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Paul Belanger <pabelanger at redhat.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Recently we've been running into some issues keeping our EPEL mirror properly
> sync'd. We are working to fix this, however we'd also like to do the following:
>
>   Stop enabling EPEL mirror by default
>   https://review.openstack.org/#/c/453222/
>
> For the most part, we enable EPEL for our image build process, this to install
> haveged.  However, it is also likely the majority of centos-7 projects don't
> actually need EPEL.  I know specifically both RDO and TripleO avoid using the
> EPEL repository because of how unstable it is.
>
> Since it is possible this could be a breaking change, jobs will still be able to
> use EPEL, but it will be an opt-in process. Your jobs will need to be updated to
> do:
>
>   $ sudo yum-config-manager --enable epel
>
> Feel free to join us in openstack-infra if you have any questions or concerns.

On behalf of Puppet OpenStack and TripleO groups (both high consumers
of centos-7 nodes): no blocker, go for it.

> -PB
>
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