On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> on 6-1-2009 9:43 AM Les Mikesell spake the following:
>> If you have the epel repo installed and enabled during a yum update, you
>> get java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2 instead of the stock .b09
>> version. Is this intentional and desirable? I thought epel generally
>> did not replace stock components with newer versions.
>>
> Any third party repo has the potential to replace base files. That is why the
> priorities and the protectbase plugins were written.
On my CentOS 5 Desktop, when I added the EPEL repository, and gave it
a very low priority, the number of excluded packages more than
quadrupled. "1648 packages excluded due to repository priority
protections"
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