Re: Repositories in CentOS 5.8

[Markus Falb <markus.falb@xxxxxxxx>]

On 22.5.2012 20:18, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Markus Falb <markus.falb@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> There are a lot of 3rd party repositories around, and my understanding
>> is that the only sane way is not to trust a whole repository but only
>> selected and therefore tested packages. Consequently though you will
>> have to maintain your own repository.
> 
> But with EPEL and others with policies to not overwrite base packages,
> you won't get anything that you didn't explicitly install (assuming
> you trust them to follow their policy...).

There are repositories that might not have such policies.
There are rpm downloads that are not yum-ified.
-- 
Kind Regards, Markus Falb

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