On 02/21/2011 05:51 AM, Steve Huff wrote:
On Feb 19, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
Steve, I noticed that rpmforge has reorganized packages a bit (I was looking
for rsync 3.x, and it appears to have moved). Do I understand correctly that
packages which are part of the base CentOS are now in the rpmforge-extras repo?
If so, the rpmforge repo can be safely enabled by default, and I should change
the qtp-install-rpmforge script accordingly. Thanks for your expertise. :)
heya Eric! here's the announcement:
http://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.rpmforge.net/msg01924.html
so, in a nutshell, there are two options:
1) enable rpmforge, don't enable rpmforge-extras: this means that none of the
base CentOS packages should be replaced, but you might not see all the packages
that you expect
2) enable rpmforge, enable rpmforge-extras: you should see all the packages you
expect, but you'll have to be explicit about overwriting some packages from
CentOS
does that help?
-steve
Yes. On #2 though, I'm not clear about the "you'll have to be explicit
about overwriting some packages" part. What would this entail, and under
what circumstances? I would expect that packages from rfx would simply
replace their older el5 counterparts. No?
My main objective here is stability. There is very little coupling
between QMT packages and the OS/base packages. The exception here would
be spamassassin and perl modules, where there is relatively strong
coupling. In this case, I expect that the most recent versions would
tend to be the best (most stable and accurate).
So I'm inclined to enable both rf and rfx repos by default. (I realize
that this is different from what I chose to do before). Do you think
this is best, or would you do something different?
Thanks Steve.
If anyone else has thoughts on this, please chime in.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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