[CentOS] Dag repository...

Sun Jan 7 20:54:19 UTC 2007
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>

On 1/7/07, John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 15:10 -0500, David A. Woyciesjes wrote:
> >
> >>      A bit of a new guy around these parts...
> >>
> >>      I've done a bit of looking, and haven't found any newbie-friendly
> >>instructions on how to add the Dag repository to my CentOS4 box. Could
> >>somebody help me out and point me in the right direction? Thanks...
> >>
> >
> > Have searched on the wiki ? :
> > http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/RPMForge
> >
>
>
> Some time ago, when I was using Debian/Woody, and Woody was creaking
> with age, I added third-party repos for various things including newer
> KDE, Mozilla....
>
> It later occurred to me this was imprudent, and not just because I got a
> system that became hard to maintain. What, I asked, was there to prevent
> the maintainers of the KDE debs to insert a brummy kernel?
>
> I asked, and the answer is that apt-get has the ability to control (it's
> called pinning) what comes from where.
>

You can install the yum-protectbase rpm as a starter. You then say
"protect the rpms in this base". Someone could write a more
complicated one (per package protection), or they could write another
plugin that did weighting so you could select which archives have
precedence over others.

> Now, I'm sure all the folk at rpmforge are straight-up good guys, but
> should you really trust some relative unknown such as
> debian at localhost.homelinux.org to not slip malware into his repo when he
> promotes some whiz-bang new lotto-winning program?
>
> How does yum control this?
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Cheers
> John
>
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