Bug 847522 - perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 from EPEL substitutes the same package from the CentOS-Base 6.3 on a new installation as an update
Summary: perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 from EPEL substitutes the same package from the CentO...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2
Version: el6
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Paul Howarth
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-08-12 15:59 UTC by DJ
Modified: 2020-07-07 12:11 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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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.
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