SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS Archives

January 2010

SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV
Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
Re: SL and EPEL experiences?
From:
Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:21:56 +0100
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (21 lines) 
> EPEL really only starts causing problems
> when you decide to mix it with Dag/RPMForge as their packages can leapfrog
> each other and break depsolving.

Indeed, we've seen same problem here and dropped
Dag/RPMForge from the list of repositories we propose
to SLC5 users: replacing system packages/libraries by
newer versions breaks the compatibility between
SLC/SL/RHEL/CentoOS ... so in the longer run it was
causing us more problems than bringing benefits ..

Cheers

Jarek

__
-------------------------------------------------------
_ Jaroslaw_Polok __________________ CERN - IT/OIS/ODS _
_ http://home.cern.ch/~jpolok ___ tel_+41_22_767_1834 _
_____________________________________ +41_78_792_0795 _

ATOM RSS1 RSS2