On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:48 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >>> 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. Why would yum ever pull anything from a repostory that doesn't replace base packages unless it is something that you explicitly installed? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com