On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:26:54AM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 3/6/09, Marcelo M. Garcia <marcelo.maia.garcia at googlemail.com> wrote: > > I just installed CentOS 5.2 (x86_64), and everything was fine. After > > installing the "epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm", and issuing "yum > > check-update", I can see that "epel" is trying to upgrade to version 5.3. > > > > First I didn't notice the problem, and after upgrading, I got the > > message "error sumary" when updating the system. > > > > It seems that the x86 (32bit) version is working fine. > > Do you have the yum priorities plug in installed? If not, you should > install it and I suggest you give EPEL a very low priority, to protect > your system. I installed the EPEL repository a week or two ago and the > number of packages being protected on my 32 bit CentOS 5.2 Desktop > went from approximately 350 to approximately 1600. > <http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities> While it's certainly a good idea to use yum-priorities, EPEL policy is such that its repository does not (should not) contain packages that conflict with base OS packages. This can obviously change a bit as upstream adds packages between minor version releases that conflict with EPEL packages. Ray