Axel Thimm wrote:
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 04:20:30PM -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote:On 7/7/2008 2:26 PM, Scott Silva wrote:on 7-7-2008 12:45 PM Kenneth Burgener spake the following:"The CentOS 5/RHEL 5 repository from atrpms.net is safe to use, if you only use the stable version. Packages in there do not overwrite system packages." [1]You need to use the priorities plugin if you are going to use 3rd party repos. There is no other safe way about it.[1] http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/Using client side filtering is not recommended, it creates more bugs, than it can solve. The proper thing is to take care of it on the server side, where the package owners are supposed to know how to structure the repos.
Client filtering is not recommended by some people ... but highly recommended by others :-D
I would be one of the highly recommended votes <snip>
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