[CentOS] stock openjdk vs. epel

Mon Jun 1 17:50:34 UTC 2009
Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com>

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"