[CentOS] 3rd party repositories

Rob Townley rob.townley at gmail.com
Sun Oct 27 16:14:51 UTC 2013


Andrew,

$ yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel info kernel

Does not show any kernels except what is already installed.
i suppose you have to enable testing and for that matter, looking in
CentOS testing first would be better.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Andrew Holway <andrew.holway at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have never had any problems with EPEL: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>
> Recently I used it to upgrade a kernel to 3.0.99 from the stock 2.6.32
> and everything just worked apart from an obscure kernel module for
> hfsplus support.
>
> ta,
>
> Andrew
>
> On 18 October 2013 21:52, isdtor <isdtor at gmail.com> 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?
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