[CentOS] CentosPlus

[Mauricio Tavares]

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.
>> >
>> > I've had the CentOSPlus repository enabled for CentOS6 for more
>> > than a year with no problems. I don't recall reading anything on
>> > this mailing list or IRC suggesting that enabling plus caused
>> > issues with updates.
>> >
>> > The CentOS wiki warns "Enabling this repository makes CentOS
>> > different from upstream. You should understand the implications
>> > of this prior to enabling CentOSPlus". Essentially this is a
>> > reminder that the CentOS community has no appetite for supporting
>> > slightly non-standard configurations (a very reasonable stance).
>> >
>> > If you need the extra hardware driver modules available with
>> > Plus this shouldn't stop you from running a Plus kernel.
>> > Just be prepared to reproduce any problems using a stock
>> > kernel (which you can still select at boot) if you need to
>> > resolve an OS issue with help from others.
>> >
>> > The only vhanged packages in the CentOS Plus 6 repo are the
>> > kernel (kernel, kernel-abi-whitelist, kernel-doc,
>> > kernel-firmware, kernel-headers, kernel-devel), the kernel
>> > performance utilities (perf, python-perf), and postfix.
>> >
>> > For detailed differences of the "Plus" kernel see:
>> >
> https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CentOSPlus?action=show&redirect=Repositories%2FCentOSPlus#head-a94637ae716c01023f633e8b5fb840f555f6d378
>> >
>>       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
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