On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: > on 6-1-2009 9:43 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: >> If you have the epel repo installed and enabled during a yum update, you >> get java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2 instead of the stock .b09 >> version. Is this intentional and desirable? I thought epel generally >> did not replace stock components with newer versions. >> > Any third party repo has the potential to replace base files. That is why the > priorities and the protectbase plugins were written. On my CentOS 5 Desktop, when I added the EPEL repository, and gave it a very low priority, the number of excluded packages more than quadrupled. "1648 packages excluded due to repository priority protections"