On 9/17/2010 12:58 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Jim Wildman wrote: > >> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >>> i've already added a section on EPEL, just so i can install >>> things like git. and i know there's an entire page at centos.org >>> on extra repos. any there that you *particularly* recommend? >>> i'll revisit that page later today but i'm thinking that, for the >>> sake of this first-level admin course, EPEL might be sufficient >>> for now. >> >> How to identify and work your way out of rpm conflicts. (without >> using nodeps of course). > > i've already added some of that, using things like --replacepkgs and > --replacefiles and so on. > I think a current moderately harmless example would be getting a non-ancient version of subversion and viewvc from rpmforge, then noting that a 'yum full update' with epel enabled will swap in a viewvc configured in an incompatible way. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com