[CentOS] Running Centos 8 Stream: Do I need to remove any of the repos?

Mon Nov 29 15:14:51 UTC 2021
Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>

On Sun, 28 Nov 2021, Jay Hart wrote:

> Here is a list of the repos I have. As I am now running Centos 8 Stream, should I remove any of the repos below to avoid package
> versioning issues?
>
> # ls -al /etc/yum.repos.d/
> total 108
> drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root  4096 Nov 15 16:18 .
> drwxr-xr-x. 152 root root 12288 Nov 28 10:17 ..
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root   790 Jun  7  2020 CentOS-AppStream.repo.rpmsave
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root   771 Jun  7  2020 CentOS-Base.repo.rpmsave
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root   792 Jun  7  2020 CentOS-PowerTools.repo.rpmsave
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root   713 Sep 14 21:11 CentOS-Stream-AppStream.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root   698 Sep 14 21:11 CentOS-Stream-BaseOS.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root   316 Sep 14 21:11 CentOS-Stream-Debuginfo.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root   698 Sep 14 21:11 CentOS-Stream-Extras.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root   734 Sep 14 21:11 CentOS-Stream-HighAvailability.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root   696 Sep 14 21:11 CentOS-Stream-Media.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root   718 Sep 14 21:11 CentOS-Stream-PowerTools.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root   690 Sep 14 21:11 CentOS-Stream-RealTime.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root   748 Sep 14 21:11 CentOS-Stream-ResilientStorage.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root  1568 Sep 14 21:11 CentOS-Stream-Sources.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root  1485 Sep  4 13:28 epel-modular.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root  1564 Sep  4 13:28 epel-playground.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root  1422 Sep  4 13:28 epel.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root  1584 Sep  4 13:28 epel-testing-modular.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root  1521 Sep  4 13:28 epel-testing.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root   358 Nov 15 16:18 redhat.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root   935 Jul  5 10:00 remi-modular.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root  1448 Jul  5 10:00 remi.repo
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root   810 Jul  5 10:00 remi-safe.repo

The file listing doesn't show which repositories are enabled or 
disabled. On my Stream 8 machine, which does light duty as a mail and 
web server, dnf reports only six active repos:

[root at omega ~]# dnf repolist
repo id       repo name
appstream     CentOS Stream 8 - AppStream
baseos        CentOS Stream 8 - BaseOS
epel          Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64
epel-modular  Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64
epel-next     Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - Next - x86_64
extras        CentOS Stream 8 - Extras

I don't know anything about the remi* repositories, so I can't speak 
to them. I suspect the redhat.repo file is nothing but comments, but 
you'd need to verify its contents.

Otherwise, your *.repo list looks pretty functional.

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Paul Heinlein
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