Just a quick saying to encourage you: wisdom is knowledge learned through mistakes. Building things is good, but breaking things let's you learn how to build better things. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 29, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Ben Montanelli <montanelli at rivint.com> wrote: > I'm elevating myself from "noob" to "noob with scars." I'm not one to > ask a lot of questions if I have time to find out on my own. > > I now know at least a half dozen ways to hose a solid CentOS Xen > install. That's a good thing, I learn from mistakes. Like forgetting > to > actually completely configure priority statements in the repo confs. > > In the past I have used yum protect-base, but about a year ago or so I > switched to yum priorities because it seems a bit more granular. > > Is there a recommended preference on CentOS Xen installs? I'm pretty > conservative now and won't go near Plus or Contribs, I do have Convirt > repos in and it looks like they pulldown a couple dependencies from > RPMForge (paramiko and socat). > > I don't plan on anymore repos, but am wary enough to want to nail my > last install down. > > Any prefs here for CentOS Xen? Yum Protect-base or Priorities? > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt