[CentOS] Enabling X on headless server via network

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Sun Jul 25 17:17:35 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> You need to be somewhat careful these days about things that came from
> centos-testing or extras as some now also appear in epel with the same names and
> version number that aren't likely to be coordinated.  I haven't seen anything
> actually break from this yet but have been surprised to see things originally
> installed from CentOS updating from EPEL.

Good point. While centos-testing and centosplus repos are disabled by
default, extras is shipped enabled. So, any 3rd party repo (including
EPEL) must be used with proper setup (priority plugin, include/exclude
lines, etc). I have added a note to the EPEL section at:

http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories

EPEL is generally known to not overwrite distro files, but when it
starts showing conflicts with the CentOS extras repo, that needs an
additional note.

Akemi



More information about the CentOS mailing list