On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
You need to be somewhat careful these days about things that came from centos-testing or extras as some now also appear in epel with the same names and version number that aren't likely to be coordinated. I haven't seen anything actually break from this yet but have been surprised to see things originally installed from CentOS updating from EPEL.
Good point. While centos-testing and centosplus repos are disabled by default, extras is shipped enabled. So, any 3rd party repo (including EPEL) must be used with proper setup (priority plugin, include/exclude lines, etc). I have added a note to the EPEL section at:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
EPEL is generally known to not overwrite distro files, but when it starts showing conflicts with the CentOS extras repo, that needs an additional note.
Akemi