On 1/7/07, John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
You can install the yum-protectbase rpm as a starter. You then say "protect the rpms in this base". Someone could write a more complicated one (per package protection), or they could write another plugin that did weighting so you could select which archives have precedence over others.
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? -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Z1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Please do not reply off-list _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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