On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 02:54:21PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 06/19/2015 05:29 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 09:01:43 +0200 > > Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> wrote: > >> You are correct, but what "more info" do you want? > > > > Well, a list of names of those conflicting packages would be nice to > > have. Or instructions how to ask yum to compile it. > > > >> You've spelled it > >> out quite well, you have the solution (set the lowest prio == highest > >> value for epel), end of story? > > > > Unfortunately, it isn't. I was running the machine for some time > > without having the yum-priorities plugin. I (naively) believed that > > EPEL is careful not to create conflicts against base (I have read on > > this very list that it's safe to use). Stuff got installed, updated > > several times over, etc. > > > > Now after I figured there are in fact conflicts, I need to figure out > > the consistency of the software installed on my machine. How many (and > > which) packages from base have been stepped over by epel on my system? > > How severe are the consequences? > > > > I need to know how affected my system is, which packages to reinstall > > (now that I've activated priorities), etc. It's a mess that needs to > > be cleaned up. > > > >> If you want it fixed you should report this to EPEL, not here. But > >> with a large repo like EPEL this is bound to happen again and again > >> as the distrib is a moving target. yum priorities mostly solves it. > > > > No, I don't really care to have it fixed, yum-priorities can take care > > of that in the future. But I want to fix my server, to make sure that > > all packages from base are still there. > > > > And I also want to make some noise about it on this list, so that other > > people don't end up with the same problem. It should be stated clearly > > that epel is *not* safe to use without the priorities plugin. > > To be perfectly honest, the differences between EPEL and Base+extras can > usually be completely ignored anyway. > > While somethings may be in epel and extras .. and the extras versions > might lag, the extras version likely came from EPEL in the first place > and was added as a build requirement for some other package in extras. > > This means that if there is a newer version in EPEL later, it is likely > not going to cause a problem if it is installed on CentOS .. and in > reality, we should probably be pulling that newer EPEL package into > extras anyway. > > I don't think, if you stay in the elrepo, EPEL, and Base+Extras family > that you are going to be hurt very often using whatever yum finds > without yum-priorities at all. I would add the NUX repo to those as > well. If you go outside those 4, maybe yum-priorities become more > important. I used to add RPMFUSION to that, but as of last time I looked, not more than 2-3 weeks ago, they still don't have EL7 listed. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, And my hope is in you all day long. -------------------------- Psalm 25:4-5 (NIV) --------------------------------