Bug 847522

Summary:	perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 from EPEL substitutes the same package from the CentOS-Base 6.3 on a new installation as an update
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	DJ <djzn.br>
Component:	perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2	Assignee:	Paul Howarth <paul>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	el6	CC:	lkundrak, paul, tis
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Last Closed:	2020-07-07 12:11:27 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description DJ 2012-08-12 15:59:43 UTC

Description of problem:

Title says it all.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable EPEL repo.
2. Just wait until the update manager to come up or issue yum update
3. EPEL wants to replace perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2.
  
Actual results:

The package gets replaced.

Expected results:

This package should have not replaced the Base system package from Base repo.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tuomo Soini 2012-09-24 13:49:19 UTC

This is against epel guidelines - please remove package from epel.

Comment 2 Paul Howarth 2020-07-07 12:11:27 UTC

This package was retired from EPEL-6 in May 2013.