EPEL

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

At the Wednesday meeting someone asked about the EPEL repo. EPEL stands
for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux. These are Fedora applications
recompiled and repackaged for use with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
and CentOS. This repo is a gold mine. As of today the ./5 folder for
RHEL5 contains:

        SRPMS	2699 packages
        i386	4581 packages
        x86_64	5652 packages

The x86_64 directory contains 1,095 packages that are also in the i386
directory.

Most EPEL packages are obscure, but there are some gems such as
fail2ban, gparted, ntfs-3g-2010, and yumex. If you use RHEL5 or CentOS5,
you should definitely add epel.repo (attached) to your /etc/yum.repos.d
directory, and its GPG key to /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/.

--Doc

P.S. You should also have RPMFusion in your repo list.
[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL

[epel-debuginfo]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Debug
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch/debug
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-debug-5&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
gpgcheck=1

[epel-source]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Source
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/SRPMS
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-source-5&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
gpgcheck=1
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