--- seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 00:05 +0000, Karanbir Singh > wrote: > > When an rpm is built for CentOS-Extras or > CentOS-Plus, is it safe to > > assume that people using these repo's only use > them for specific rpms ( > > eg, someone with a stock CentOS install might use > the CentOS-Plus repo > > for php-5 and only php-5 ) or are most people > enabling the entire repo ? > > > > This question comes from the idea of when building > a package, should a > > rpm, hosted in CentOS-Plus link against only > [base]+[updates] and only > > use the minimum possible set of packages from > [centosplus] ? So as to > > have a situation wherein you can use selective > packages from > > CentOS-Plus, while not needing any support stuff > from there ( eg. > > postfix-mysql in CentOS-Plus should link against > mysql-4.1 since thats > > whats in [base] rather than mysql-5 which is in > CentOS Plus ) > > > > This does create a risk that we might end up > creating packages that are > > themselves incompatible with other packages from > the same repository, > > but work fine when used with the [base] packages > for the same functionality. > > > > The other option is to have the entire CentOS-Plus > repo enabled for any > > packages built for the same repo, which might mean > that using php-5 from > > CentOS-Plus needs MySQL-5 and pgsql-8 from > CentOS Plus also installed. > > > > I'd say centos-plus can rely on centos-plus in total > and base+updates. you might criticaly needs php5 but not mysql-5 or pgsql-8, so you are willing to use php-5 from centos-plus but not mysql-5 or pgsql-8 .... but it can be in the other way also .... so I guess is a matter of personal needs.. 'I' try to be as close as rhel as posible, so, if 'I' can, 'I' will try to just use exactly what I need and nothing more, so, the approach that imply that I get everything in centos-plus to be linked to base+updates is prefered for me. just my 0.02 cu roger __________________________________________ RedHat Certified Engineer ( RHCE ) Cisco Certified Network Associate ( CCNA ) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited