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. 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 -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list