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 > > -- spambait > 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu > > Please do not reply off-list > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"