-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On
Behalf
Of Les Mikesell Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:52 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backuppc-updates on CentOS
[...]
Looking more closely I saw that the RHEL5-packages were from epel,
a repo one
maybe shouldn't choose as a primary repo for ones CentOS-systems if you
can
help it. At least that's the impression I got from the various posts to
this
list.
No, epel is the best large 3rd party repo in terms of avoiding conflicts with the base. They are just not perfect. It's probably impossible to be perfect without a single point of coordination, but you generally won't get in trouble leaving epel enabled during updates unless you also use other 3rd party repos. They also tend not to have as current packages as rpmforge, though.
Yeah, I noticed that with rpmforge. I was just under the impression that epel was a bit "dodgy" as repos come. Never too late to be enlightened though. ;-)