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<br><div><div>On 5-Oct-08, at 10:10 PM, nate wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Perhaps you should use a distribution that includes all of the</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">packages you need rather than trying to bolt a bunch of</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">3rd party stuff on to CentOS.</font></p> </blockquote><br></div><div>Only a the PHP packages came from a 3rd party, Everything else as far as I know comes from CentOS-Base.repo. I later removed the 3rd party PHP rpms (see log) and re-installed what was available from CentOS-Testing.repo</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I never, ever directly use 3rd party repositories. Never</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">have had a problem. I even download mysql from mysql.com and</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">build it from source, even go so far as rebuilding php</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to link against the newer mysql(in CentOS 4's case). No</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">problems.</div></blockquote><br></div><div>Well. this is definitely good advice. But for the rest of us looking to use yum, you know, the default CentOS package management software, it seems a bit odd top to say "you shouldn't have used yum" when all the documentation I searched for led to it?</div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>---</div><div><a href="http://www.trotch.com">http://www.trotch.com</a>/</div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>