Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:48 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Using elrepo is therefore safe unless you make modifications of course
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Except that we don't want to replace or update the main repository packages, except in very, very special cases. That was why I allowed only kmod-nvidia in the repo. We do worry, since we've got 150 or so
servers
and workstations that I mostly do the updates on, and they shouldn't be some have, and some don't, except for an arguably special reason to be different than others. kmod-nvidia is the only one we have that meets that criteria.
Why would yum ever pull anything from a repostory that doesn't replace base packages unless it is something that you explicitly installed?
I wouldn't. But I did want to explicitly say what I was allowing it to get, so that it wouldn't accidentally get something I didn't want.
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