[CentOS] Repositories in CentOS 5.8

Wed May 23 07:12:23 UTC 2012
Markus Falb <markus.falb at fasel.at>

On 22.5.2012 20:18, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Markus Falb <markus.falb at fasel.at> wrote:

>> There are a lot of 3rd party repositories around, and my understanding
>> is that the only sane way is not to trust a whole repository but only
>> selected and therefore tested packages. Consequently though you will
>> have to maintain your own repository.
> 
> But with EPEL and others with policies to not overwrite base packages,
> you won't get anything that you didn't explicitly install (assuming
> you trust them to follow their policy...).

There are repositories that might not have such policies.
There are rpm downloads that are not yum-ified.
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Kind Regards, Markus Falb