Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:15 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
everyone knows that some other elrepo packages result in conflicts with the base CentOS repositories.
Just to clarify -- From the ELRepo web site ( http://elrepo.org ):
elrepo This is the main channel and is enabled by default. As this channel should not contain packages also present in the distribution, it should be safe to run a 'yum update' with this repository channel enabled.
elrepo-extras The elrepo-extras channel provides packages and their dependencies that replace/update RHEL distribution packages. It may be enabled in the /etc/yum.repos.d/elrepo.repo file or used with 'yum --enablerepo=elrepo-extras'.
In other words, the packages in the elrepo-extras repo may conflict with the distro packages but this repo is shipped disabled by default. Using elrepo is therefore safe unless you make modifications of course ...
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.
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