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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:49:03 -0500
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Ken Teh wrote:

> If I install packages from ATrpms or DAG, do I simply modify the enable
> flag in the respective repo files in /etc/yum.repo.d so the system gets
> properly updated from these other repos during the nightly yum update
> cron job?  Is it really this simple or are there side-effects I should
> be aware of?

Yes.  Side effects are if these other repos have newer versions of rpms 
that you have installed that came from either the SL repo's or some other 
repo.

Can use protectbase and the priority yum plugin's to help with this.

-connie
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> Thanks!
>

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