Robert wrote: > (You did read the 1st sentence of Ralph's 1st reply, right? -- "If you > haven't done *any* upgrade on that machine yet,....")? > > Once that system has been cross-pollinated, all bets are off. If you > *have* loaded that baby down with updates and/or packages from Fedora, > EPEL, rpmforge, sourceforge, etc., then you will likely have a bunch of > head-scratchin' in your near and distant future. Un-bastardization is > kinda like un-ringing a bell. Having stuff on there from other repos isn't even the problem: As soon as you update *one* package on the machine, the centos media repository isn't able to satisfy dependencies anymore, as it only knows about stuff which is *on* the install medium. Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080922/ca966c5c/attachment-0005.sig>