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


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