Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:15 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >> everyone knows that some other elrepo packages result in conflicts >> with the base CentOS repositories. > > Just to clarify -- From the ELRepo web site ( http://elrepo.org ): > > elrepo > This is the main channel and is enabled by default. As this channel > should not contain packages also present in the distribution, it > should be safe to run a 'yum update' with this repository channel > enabled. > > elrepo-extras > The elrepo-extras channel provides packages and their dependencies > that replace/update RHEL distribution packages. It may be enabled in > the /etc/yum.repos.d/elrepo.repo file or used with 'yum > --enablerepo=elrepo-extras'. > > In other words, the packages in the elrepo-extras repo may conflict > with the distro packages but this repo is shipped disabled by default. > Using elrepo is therefore safe unless you make modifications of course > ... Except that we don't want to replace or update the main repository packages, except in very, very special cases. That was why I allowed only kmod-nvidia in the repo. We do worry, since we've got 150 or so servers and workstations that I mostly do the updates on, and they shouldn't be some have, and some don't, except for an arguably special reason to be different than others. kmod-nvidia is the only one we have that meets that criteria. mark