On Wed, May 18, 2016 07:39, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 4:32 AM, James Hogarth james.hogarth@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 May 2016 20:52, "Mauricio Tavares" raubvogel@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 3:04 PM, cpolish@surewest.net wrote:
On 2016-05-17 12:09, jd1008 wrote:
Has anybody enabled this repo? I understand that it can really mess up updates and upgrades as the dependencies are rather different.
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Why not leave all the extra repos disabled, saysed -i -e 's/^enabled=1/enabled=0/' /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
and manually enable it when you need to get a package from said repo:
yum install -y libmcrypt --enablerepo=epel
Doing this means you won't get notified of updates in that repo. This is not a good idea.
I see your point since you can setup repo priorities
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Having been bitten by this on several occasions I finally adopted the policy of using the -- includepkgs= -- option and specifically naming the packages that I want from a non-standard repo; and also using -- exclude= -- in the standard repo naming exactly the same packages as those included elsewhere. You can use globbing in the package names in both cases.
It is a little more work to set up but it is a lot safer to my way of thinking, particularly where there are multiple sysadmins involved.