--- seth vidal skvidal@linux.duke.edu wrote:
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 00:05 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
When an rpm is built for CentOS-Extras or
CentOS-Plus, is it safe to
assume that people using these repo's only use
them for specific rpms (
eg, someone with a stock CentOS install might use
the CentOS-Plus repo
for php-5 and only php-5 ) or are most people
enabling the entire repo ?
This question comes from the idea of when building
a package, should a
rpm, hosted in CentOS-Plus link against only
[base]+[updates] and only
use the minimum possible set of packages from
[centosplus] ? So as to
have a situation wherein you can use selective
packages from
CentOS-Plus, while not needing any support stuff
from there ( eg.
postfix-mysql in CentOS-Plus should link against
mysql-4.1 since thats
whats in [base] rather than mysql-5 which is in
CentOS Plus )
This does create a risk that we might end up
creating packages that are
themselves incompatible with other packages from
the same repository,
but work fine when used with the [base] packages
for the same functionality.
The other option is to have the entire CentOS-Plus
repo enabled for any
packages built for the same repo, which might mean
that using php-5 from
CentOS-Plus needs MySQL-5 and pgsql-8 from
CentOS Plus also installed.
I'd say centos-plus can rely on centos-plus in total and base+updates.
you might criticaly needs php5 but not mysql-5 or pgsql-8, so you are willing to use php-5 from centos-plus but not mysql-5 or pgsql-8 .... but it can be in the other way also ....
so I guess is a matter of personal needs.. 'I' try to be as close as rhel as posible, so, if 'I' can, 'I' will try to just use exactly what I need and nothing more, so, the approach that imply that I get everything in centos-plus to be linked to base+updates is prefered for me.
just my 0.02
cu roger
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