Tim Edwards wrote:
To me it seems like the most popular and most-used 3rd party yum repos
for RHEL/Centos/Scientific Linux are:
- EPEL
- Dag
- Centos Extras
I have 2 questions
- Can I have these repositories enabled without fear of conflicting
packages/versions?
- Is there any difference between the dag and dries repos or have they
merged?
Easy question first:
Dag/Dries/FreshRPMS are now pretty much combined under the RPMForge.net
repository.
As to whether they can all be enabled together...
Fedora Policy on EPEL & other repos compatibility:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/RepositoryCollaboration
CentOS Extras I have no knowledge of.
Basically none of these projects can guarantee that their packages won't
conflict, as they are all committed to providing a different set of
software with possibly common dependencies and can't rely on users
having a second third-party repo configured.
They do try their best, but I don't think you will ever get a cast iron
commitment to interoperability.
Here's one guy's experiences from back in 2007 (things have moved on
since then).
http://www.beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2007/10/22/09/48/34-both-epel-and-rpmforge-until-the
So, YMMV is the basic response to having multiple repos enabled.
--
Sam
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