On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:20 AM, S. Dale Morrey <[email protected]>wrote:

> I feel your pain.  I made the mistake of following instructions for
> installing Asterisk on CentOS and trying them on an RHEL box awhile back.
> The version numbers were the same so I figured it would be safe.  The
> directions had me add a repo that "upgraded" some vital packages and
> completely horked the system.  Thankfully it was meant to ONLY be an
> asterisk server, nevertheless dependency hell was so bad I just wiped and
> reinstalled the OS.
>

Interesting.  I'm curious to know which repo that is, as typically a
well-behaved repo shouldn't overwrite any packages from the OS itself.
That being said, I've found too many ill-behaved repos (and packages, too)
lately, especially around specialty applications such as VoIP.

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Jared Smith

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