I think I understand. Your answer clears things up a bit. My resulting question would be: Will the same rpms that are found in these repositories appear down the line in the CentOS base rpms repository? If so, then I would just be a little ahead of the game. Thanks again. -Jose Johnny Hughes wrote: >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. > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >