Fabian Arrotin wrote:
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 15:10 -0500, David A. Woyciesjes wrote:
A bit of a new guy around these parts...
I've done a bit of looking, and haven't found any newbie-friendly
instructions on how to add the Dag repository to my CentOS4 box. Could
somebody help me out and point me in the right direction? Thanks...
Have searched on the wiki ? :
http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/RPMForge
Some time ago, when I was using Debian/Woody, and Woody was creaking
with age, I added third-party repos for various things including newer
KDE, Mozilla....
It later occurred to me this was imprudent, and not just because I got a
system that became hard to maintain. What, I asked, was there to prevent
the maintainers of the KDE debs to insert a brummy kernel?
I asked, and the answer is that apt-get has the ability to control (it's
called pinning) what comes from where.
Now, I'm sure all the folk at rpmforge are straight-up good guys, but
should you really trust some relative unknown such as
debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to not slip malware into his repo when he
promotes some whiz-bang new lotto-winning program?
How does yum control this?
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Cheers
John
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