[CentOS] ATRpms repo question...

Sun Dec 25 20:27:57 UTC 2005
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 12:24 -0500, Jose Alburquerque wrote:
> Hi.  I'm fairly new with CentOS but have been using version 4.2 with 
> great satisfaction (Thank you!).  I've been using repos such as Dag and 
> Dries successfully to keep my packages up to date.  (I've seen many 
> posts which allow me to believe that these repos won't change CentOS 
> compatibility to RHEL4 or to migrate it another distro for that 
> matter!)  My question applies to the ATRpms repo (which has el4 rpms).  
> Can I safely use this repo to "yum update" my system?  When I added the 
> repo to the yum repos (and to the up2date repos as well), I noticed more 
> than 100 packages to be updated (some seem to be system packages like 
> alsa-lib, autoconf, glib2, etc.)  Can I update with this repo and 
> maintain same basic system and functionality?  Thanks for your answers.
> 

ATrpms will replace several base RPMS ... as to whether or not that is
what you want, that is up to you.

I am normally very careful what RPMS I add to my system that are
external to the CentOS repos.

I do use Dag's repo (usually with a "includepkgs=" set so that I only
update packages that I know about).

I am very careful though, and other people have use Dag, Dries and
ATrpms without problems ... so maybe I am just a little bit too
cautious. 
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