I have never had any problems with EPEL: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL Recently I used it to upgrade a kernel to 3.0.99 from the stock 2.6.32 and everything just worked apart from an obscure kernel module for hfsplus support. ta, Andrew On 18 October 2013 21:52, isdtor <isdtor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can anyone comment on the use of 3rd party repos for newer versions of > software like php, python and mysql? Two I am aware of are puias and ius. > > Is one preferable to the other? Can their packages be installed in parallel > to and without interfering with base packages? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos