> On 12/14/2011 02:51 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 01:34:50PM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote: >>> A partial list that I have found includes ElRepo.org, PUIAS, ATrpms, >>> RPMforge.net, >>> Extra Packages for Enterprise/EPEL, and of course SL 6 itself ... >> >> Please add "SLC 6", the CERN flavour of SL. Contains many additional >> packages, >> some only useful at CERN, others generally useful, but avialable >> only to users inside CERN. >> > If SLC 6 only is available to users inside CERN (presumably anyone with a > CERN account that can use the repository through a connection -- possibly a > VLAN tunnel -- to onsite CERN) but not to those of us who are not inside CERN > -- it seems to me that the repository is of little use except to those at > CERN. > > I do repost my question: how does one compare the various repositories? > > Note that EPEL states: > > Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest > Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional > packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat > Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL). > > EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and will never > conflict with or replace packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions. > EPEL uses much of the same infrastructure as Fedora, including buildsystem, > bugzilla instance, updates manager, mirror manager and more. > > End quote. Thus, EPEL claims that EPEL packages will never conflict with or > replace packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions. If this claim is > factual, then one presumably can mix EPEL and SL packages (for the same > release and architecture) without concern. I am attempting to discover if > this sort of a claim is true for any other of the public repositories. >
Take a look here, http://iuscommunity.org/Docs/SafeRepoInitiative was an attempt to define such a safe repository. Epel and Sl , its almostvtrue but there have been exceptions, e.g Sl has icewm as an addition but epel just added it in the last week or so. > Yasha Karant
