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 > BTW. I have no idea if RPMFusion is still active or not for CentOS, maybe others on the list know. My Nux! repo comment is an alternative for C6 and C7.
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