[CentOS] 3rd party repositories

Sun Oct 27 16:20:08 UTC 2013
Andrew Holway <andrew.holway at gmail.com>

Hi Rob,

Sorry, its not in in EPEL its in elrepo.

[root at jamflaps ~]# yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=elrepo info kernel-lt

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * elrepo: jur-linux.org
Installed Packages
Name        : kernel-lt
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 3.0.99
Release     : 1.el6.elrepo
Size        : 134 M
Repo        : installed
>From repo   : elrepo-kernel
Summary     : The Linux kernel. (The core of any Linux-based operating system.)
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
License     : GPLv2
Description : This package provides the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
            : Linux-based operating system. The kernel handles the
basic functions
            : of the OS: memory allocation, process allocation, device I/O, etc.

On 27 October 2013 16:14, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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