[CentOS] 3rd party repositories

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On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:23 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> isdtor wrote:
> > Can anyone comment on the use of 3rd party repos for newer versions of
> > software like php, python and mysql? Two I am aware of are puias and ius.
> >
> > Is one preferable to the other? Can their packages be installed in
> > parallel to and without interfering with base packages?
>
> We use epel and rpmfusion; there are no conflicts. Elrepo we only use for
>

I try hard to stick to official CentOS packages, but every once in a while
snag something from EPEL.

In the past I encountered a system that used IUS for a newer version of PHP
and a yum-replace plugin. [0] [1]

[0] http://iuscommunity.org/pages/Repos.html
[1] http://iuscommunity.org/pages/About.html


> *very* specific things (like the systems I can use kmod-nvidia on).
> rpmforge frequently has conflicts.
>
>     mark
>
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