On 14/12/14 03:59, PatrickD Garvey wrote: > Maybe I posted this a little late on Friday for anyone to take an > interest in suggesting a properly built search URL for the current > forum software, so I did some experiments which led to the suggestion > added below the copy of the previous post. > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 6:52 PM, I wrote: > > > [https://www.centos.org/search.php?query=atomicorp&mid=30&action=showall&andor=AND > forum search] returns a 404. > > > > > > Can the forum search https://www.centos.org/forums/search.php? be > used with parameters that will provide the supporting material for the > warning "Many CentOS users have had problems after enabling this repo"? > > > > My experimentation indicates this URL: > https://www.centos.org/forums/search.php?submit=Search&keywords=atomicorp+repo > returns 13 postings that discuss to use the Atomicorp repo with less > than satisfactory results. > > Do those 13 postings adequately support the admonition to use the > Atomicorp repo only with particular care? All third party repos should be used with care but the Atomic one is known to contain many packages that overwrite core packages from the CentOS base and updates repos without warning. Mere installation of the atomic repo will proceed to update all those packages that are in that repo and that also reside in CentOS base and updates repos unless the end user has already configured yum-plugin-priorities to exclude duplicates from lower priority repos. Not many first time users bother to do this before they've been bitten once (or more!). As an example, I went to https://www.atomicorp.com/channels/atomic/centos/6/x86_64/RPMS/ and went through the list of packages there and made a list of what's there. I then ran yum list --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=base,updates GeoOP Pound PyYAML alien apachetop aqueduct\* asl-lite atop bglibs boostcompat\* ccache clam\* clapf cloud-utils\* csync2 daemontools\* daq\* dcc denyhosts dirb dkms dotconf dpkg dselect firebird\* firedns\* freetds\* galera\* gperftools gpsd\* greenbone\* gsd havegd http-parser\* hydra\* iftop\* imapsync incron\ inotify-tools jemalloc kmodtool ldns libbsd\* libc-client libedit libident libmcrypt libmemcached libmicrohttpd libmnl libnetfilter_queue libnfnetlink libopendkim librsync libssh libssh2 libuv libvirt libvirt-client libvirt-python libvpx libyaml lsyncd lua-socket luajit lynis maildrop mariadb\* masscan memcached mhash mingw32\* miniupnpc mod_fcgid mod_cgroup mod_qos mod_rpaf mod_ruid2 mod_security mod_sed mydumper mysql mysql-bench mysql-libs mysql-server mysqlcient16 ncrack nettle nginx ngircd nikto nmap\* opendkim openpgm openssl-compat\* openvas\* ossec ovaldi pyPdf pylibacl pysvn python-BeautifulSoup python-SocksiPy python-clamd python-cluster python-esmre python-futures python-guess-language python-httplib2 python-miniupnpc python-msgpack python-nltk python-pdfminer python-pybloomfiltermmap python-zmq pyxattr pyzor qgreylist qmail\* qt-mobility qtwebkit razoragents rblcheck rbldnsd rdiff-backup recode redis reprepro roadsend salt salt-master salt-minion scap-security-guide scapy scons secstate skdet skipfish snort socat spamassassin spamdyke sqlite\* sqlninja sshpass sudosh sudosh2 supervise-scripts suricata sysbench tidy tnef ucspi-tcp uscpi-unix unbound\* unhide uni2ascii v8 varnish w3af wapiti wmi xalan-c xerces-c xl2tpd on my CentOS 6.6 system. As you can see from that command, I disabled all other third party repos that I have installed so that only those packages that are in the CentOS base and updates repos would be listed. My command may contain typos and may also not be a complete list of all packages there. For example there are lots of perl-* and php-* packages in atomic that I could not be bothered to include because there were so many of them so I omitted them but all of those have the potential to overwrite core packages. The list I got back was as follows: Installed Packages libedit.x86_64 2.11-4.20080712cvs.1.el6 @anaconda-CentOS-201311291202.x86_64/6.5 libmnl.x86_64 1.0.2-3.el6 @anaconda-CentOS-201311291202.x86_64/6.5 libnfnetlink.x86_64 1.0.0-1.el6 @anaconda-CentOS-201311291202.x86_64/6.5 libssh2.i686 1.4.2-1.el6 @base libssh2.x86_64 1.4.2-1.el6 @anaconda-CentOS-201311291202.x86_64/6.5 libvpx.i686 1.3.0-5.el6_5 @updates libvpx.x86_64 1.3.0-5.el6_5 @updates mysql.x86_64 5.1.73-3.el6_5 @updates mysql-libs.x86_64 5.1.73-3.el6_5 @updates mysql-server.x86_64 5.1.73-3.el6_5 @updates nmap.x86_64 2:5.51-4.el6 @fasttrack sqlite.i686 3.6.20-1.el6 @base sqlite.x86_64 3.6.20-1.el6 @anaconda-CentOS-201311291202.x86_64/6.5 Available Packages PyYAML.i686 3.10-3.1.el6 updates PyYAML.x86_64 3.10-3.1.el6 updates libc-client.i686 2007e-11.el6 base libc-client.x86_64 2007e-11.el6 base libedit.i686 2.11-4.20080712cvs.1.el6 base libmemcached.i686 0.31-1.1.el6 base libmemcached.x86_64 0.31-1.1.el6 base libmicrohttpd.i686 0.9.33-4.el6 base libmicrohttpd.x86_64 0.9.33-4.el6 base libmnl.i686 1.0.2-3.el6 base libnetfilter_queue.i686 1.0.1-3.el6 base libnetfilter_queue.x86_64 1.0.1-3.el6 base libnfnetlink.i686 1.0.0-1.el6 base libvirt.x86_64 0.10.2-46.el6_6.2 updates libvirt-client.i686 0.10.2-46.el6_6.2 updates libvirt-client.x86_64 0.10.2-46.el6_6.2 updates libvirt-python.x86_64 0.10.2-46.el6_6.2 updates libyaml.i686 0.1.3-1.4.el6 base libyaml.x86_64 0.1.3-1.4.el6 base memcached.x86_64 1.4.4-3.el6 base mysql-bench.x86_64 5.1.73-3.el6_5 base mysql-libs.i686 5.1.73-3.el6_5 base nmap-frontend.noarch 2:5.51-4.el6 base recode.i686 3.6-28.1.el6 base recode.x86_64 3.6-28.1.el6 base scap-security-guide.noarch 0.1.18-3.el6 base scons.noarch 2.0.1-1.el6 base spamassassin.x86_64 3.3.1-3.el6 base sqlite-devel.i686 3.6.20-1.el6 base sqlite-devel.x86_64 3.6.20-1.el6 base sqlite-doc.x86_64 3.6.20-1.el6 base sqlite-tcl.x86_64 3.6.20-1.el6 base tidy.x86_64 0.99.0-19.20070615.1.el6 base xerces-c.i686 3.0.1-20.el6 base xerces-c.x86_64 3.0.1-20.el6 base Last time I looked, yum used sqlite as a database so replacing sqlite is a Really Bad Idea(tm). Replacing the distro php, mysql and various perl packages is also not a good thing nor am I very keen on it replacing libvirt nor do I look the look of many of the other lib* packages listed. May I ask: do you work for atomicorp? Trevor _______________________________________________ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
