[CentOS] CentosPlus

Wed May 18 08:32:42 UTC 2016
James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com>

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.