[CentOS] Centos 6.3 - which repos to use?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 15:45:20 UTC 2013


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> Using any single 3rd party repo is likely to work at least until the
>> next update because the contents will have been tested against the
>> base distro - as long as the packages are intended for use with
>> RHEL/Centos.
>
> I have a slightly different question.
> I had kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo enabled until recently.
> Is disabling a repo that has been in use likely to cause any problems?

Generally not.  It just means that you won't get any updates on
packages that only exist in that repo.  However there is some chance
that a same-named package will appear with a higher version number in
a different, enabled repo - and if it doesn't have the same origin
there is some chance of it being incompatible in some way.   This is
more likely to result in a single broken app than yum conflicts,
though.

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   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell at gmail.com



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