Axel Thimm wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 04:20:30PM -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote: >> On 7/7/2008 2:26 PM, Scott Silva wrote: >>> on 7-7-2008 12:45 PM Kenneth Burgener spake the following: >>>> "The CentOS 5/RHEL 5 repository from atrpms.net is safe to use, if >>>> you only use the stable version. Packages in there do not overwrite >>>> system packages." [1] >>>> >>>> [1] http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/ >>> You need to use the priorities plugin if you are going to use 3rd party >>> repos. There is no other safe way about it. > > Using client side filtering is not recommended, it creates more bugs, > than it can solve. The proper thing is to take care of it on the > server side, where the package owners are supposed to know how to > structure the repos. Client filtering is not recommended by some people ... but highly recommended by others :-D I would be one of the highly recommended votes <snip> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080708/060fd2e9/attachment-0005.sig>