[CentOS] Repositories in CentOS 5.8

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Kaushal Shriyan
>> <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am running Cent OS 5.8 in production. Can someone please explain me
>>> about various repositories available in CentOS 5.8 and which third
> party repos
>>> (http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories) i should use
>>> it
>>> in Production environment.
>>>
>>> Help me understand the pros and cons.
>>
>> Usually you decide what packages that aren't included in the base
>> distribution that you need, and then pick the repository that has them
>> instead of the other way around.   However EPEL is generally the first
>> place to look and since it has a policy of not overwriting base
>> packages there is not much risk in using it.
> <snip>
> The other one we use is rpmfusion, both free and non-free. They're stable
> and compatible with the base CentOS repos.
>
> For workstations with nvidia, who want two monitors, I'm slowly moving
> from rebuilding the proprietary library from nvidia to elrepo's
> kmod-nvidia, although I believe I heard that it's going to move to the
> base library real soon now....

Following myself up, I just wanted to clarify that kmod-nvidia, and it's
required nvidia-x11-drv are the *only* things I pull from elrepo. Pulling
randomly would result in collisions, as one base or other repo package
would conflict on dependencies with an elrepo's dependencies.

       mark