On Wed, May 18, 2016 07:39, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 4:32 AM, James Hogarth > <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote: >> On 17 May 2016 20:52, "Mauricio Tavares" <raubvogel at gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 3:04 PM, <cpolish at surewest.net> wrote: >>> > On 2016-05-17 12:09, jd1008 wrote: >>> >> Has anybody enabled this repo? >>> >> I understand that it can really mess up updates and upgrades >>> >> as the dependencies are rather different. . . . >>> > >>> Why not leave all the extra repos disabled, say >>> >>> sed -i -e 's/^enabled=1/enabled=0/' /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo >>> >>> and manually enable it when you need to get a package from said >>> repo: >>> >>> yum install -y libmcrypt --enablerepo=epel >>> >> >> Doing this means you won't get notified of updates in that repo. >> This is >> not a good idea. > > I see your point since you can setup repo priorities >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Having been bitten by this on several occasions I finally adopted the policy of using the -- includepkgs= -- option and specifically naming the packages that I want from a non-standard repo; and also using -- exclude= -- in the standard repo naming exactly the same packages as those included elsewhere. You can use globbing in the package names in both cases. It is a little more work to set up but it is a lot safer to my way of thinking, particularly where there are multiple sysadmins involved. -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail Do NOT open attachments nor follow links sent by e-Mail James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3