On 18 May 2011, at 18:00, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2011, Orion Poplawski wrote: > >> On 04/13/2011 02:00 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: >>> Personally ELRepo and RPMforge are my first choices, and I find Adobe is >>> pretty safe. If I can't find what I'm looking for there I will venture (with >>> extra caution) to EPEL and finally ATrpms. >>> Phil >> >> Just curious - why do you feel the need to treat EPEL with extra caution? I >> happen to have reversed feeling about EPEL/RPMforge. I note that out of the >> box RPMforge will replace some system packages (perhaps without any >> problems), something EPEL avoids. > > I believe that RPMForge does not do this in SL6 - they have split > there stuff into two repos - rpmforge and rpmforge-extras > one which updates existing SL packages and one with only new packages.
This is good news indeed. In any case, there is always the option of using the yum-protectbase and/or yum-priorities plugins to prevent external repos from overriding the "core OS" ones. Cheers, Sergio -- Sergio Ballestrero - http://physics.uj.ac.za/psiwiki/Ballestrero University of Johannesburg, Physics Department ATLAS TDAQ sysadmin group - Office:75282 OnCall:164851