Hi Jim Green wrote: > Hi all > > I'm considering adding the EPEL repository > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL > > to a SL54 network of around 50 machines. Do any of the SL users > here have any experience of EPEL, especially incompatibilities, > problems etc ...
We do: For our SL version - SLC(ern) we actually add the EPEL repo by default to our installations: No problems seen so far and no incompatibilities/conflicts: But that is to be expected: EPEL policy is to add only supplementary packages without changing/updating what is provided by the system. (that's to say we also use protectbase yum plugin to make sure that our system repositories take precedence over all others .. just in case and because we ship some packages which are in EPEL too - for historical reasons mostly ...) So far few hundred users are running since few months with this configuration and we haven;t received any complaints/problem reports. Cheers Jarek __ ------------------------------------------------------- _ Jaroslaw_Polok __________________ CERN - IT/OIS/ODS _ _ http://home.cern.ch/~jpolok ___ tel_+41_22_767_1834 _ _____________________________________ +41_78_792_0795 _
