On 05/31/2016 05:12 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I have to maintain (and eventually beef up) desktop clients in public > libraries running CentOS 5 and 6. The hardware is still OK, though > sometimes really old, so the least evil will be to keep CentOS 5 on the > old machines until that version is EOL. > > I've been using CentOS 5 as my main system somewhere between 2007 and > 2009. At the time the RPMForge was my favorite third-party repository, > though I understand that project is dead. I'm looking for a clean and > viable solution to replace this. Here's what I intend to do. > > 1. Configure the base, updates and extra repos with a priority of 1. > > 2. Configure EPEL with a priority of 10. > > 3. Configure RPMFusion with a priority of 10. > > Now I don't know about the status of RPMFusion. Is this third-party repo > still maintained? I wonder, since their home page only gives information > about RHEL/CentOS 5 and 6. From what I understand, it's healthy to mix > it with an EL+EPEL base. > > I'm planning to add some basic (and somewhat extended) multimedia > capability to those desktop clients, so packages like mplayer, ffmpeg, > lame and the likes will come in handy. For eventually missing packages > (like eventually an old version of VLC for reading DVDs), I'll just grab > the SRPMS from the old RPMForge repo and setup my own repo after > building them locally. > > Any suggestions? > > Niki Kovacs > Well specifically for centos-5 .. I am not sure. But CentOS-5 is less than a year from EOL anyway, so if you are supporting those in a desktop, you should be considering how to move them to at least CentOS-6 now (if not CentOS-7). But for CentOS-6 (and CentOS-7), the Nux! repo + EPEL should have most everything you need for a desktop. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20160531/20f15391/attachment-0004.sig>